Closure of Blarney tourist office ‘great loss to village’

It may be home to one of Ireland’s most visited attractions, but the tourist office in a popular Cork village has closed — more than six years after its demise was actually announced.

While kissing the Blarney Stone promises the gift of the gab, there will be no more words of advice coming from the village’s tourism office after it shut its doors for the last time on Friday.

Blarney & District Chamber of Commerce has announced that the office, near the village square, has closed, having been run for years on goodwill.