A €450,000 marketing blitz for the west of Ireland is currently underway, Minister of State for Tourism and Sport and Mayo TD Michael Ring TD has confirmed. Tourism Ireland is currently spending €450,000 to market winter air services to Knock that the Minsiter expects this campaign to bring real benefits during the winter months, and also feed through into the spring and summer seasons in 2012.

A plan to develop a walkway and cycle route along the ‘Monasteries of the Moy’ was outlined to Brian Hayes, T.D., Junior Minister for Finance with responsibility for the Office of Public Works when he visited Ballina. The idea is that the various abbeys and religious sites along the west bank of the River Moy would be linked by a walkway and cycle route that would become a tourist attraction.

Knock Shrine Pilgrimages was represented at the 32nd World Travel Market in London which is the largest B2B event in the global travel and tourism calendar, with almost 50,000 representatives of the industry from around the world and 3,000 influential international media in attendance. 

The appointment of Mayo native, Sr Mary Lyons, a Sister of Mercy, as Diocesan Chancellor of the Tuam Archdiocese, has made  history.