Paragliding in Donegal at Five Fingers Strand

Here is a great video of paragliding in Donegal at Five Fingers Strand in north Inishowen. Five Fingers Strand is located northwest of Malin Village at Lagg and is an area of impressive sand dunes (up to 30m high, some of the highest in Europe) It is named after the line of five rock pinnacles which you can see jutting out from the headland at the entrance to the Bay.

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Paragliding in Donegal – YouTube Comments

good days fun at the five finger strand donegal phil barron ,rab holmes, mervin glass and gavin rabbit ,west facing dunnes and southwest cliff better in the summer

hey martin ,its west ,yeah you can launch from the grass in the middle part,always remember if you have sand in your glider you had fun you can shake the sand out but you will never shake the memories of the fun time that was had , come on ,be a sand BUG XX

these are miniwings built for strong wind flying when your paraglider is to dangerous in these conditions,they can be used as speed wings if the trimmers are off at their full speed ,no dhv xx

 

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Fall in Tourist Numbers in late 2011

Tourism Ireland today launched its brand new global advertising campaign – Jump into Ireland – to promote the country overseas over the next three years.

The campaign will be featured on television in the UK – the country’s largest and most important tourism market. The new ads will also be broadcast on French and German television as well as in cinemas in the UK, US, Spain and Italy.

An online ad campaign will also be launched in the other 22 markets in which Tourism Ireland has a presence.

Tourism Ireland’s chief executive Niall Gibbons said the group is targeting further growth in 2012 and its goal is to welcome over 9 million visitors to the island of Ireland by 2015, exceeding the record year for tourism of 2007.

Travel figures fell late last year

Official figures show a fall in the number of people travelling to Ireland between September and November, though visitor numbers for the year so far are still ahead of last year.

The Central Statistics Office said there were just over 1.5 million trips made to Ireland in the three-month period, down 4.1% or 65,300 compared with the same period a year earlier.

Visits from Britain – Ireland’s biggest tourism market – were down 2%, while trips from North America fell 11.7%. Visits from other European countries were down 2.9% compared with the same period last year.

For the first 11 months of the year, foreign trips to Ireland are up 6.8% – or 380,100 – to just over six million.

Late last month, the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation estimated that overseas visitors to Ireland increased by 7% in 2011 – the first increase in four years. Tourism body Fáilte Ireland is due to give its estimate later this week.

Meanwhile, Irish people made 58,700 fewer trips abroad from September to November – a drop of 3.9% to just over three million. For the first 11 months of 2011, Irish travel abroad fell by 4% to 5.98 million.

This article appeared in RTE Business News

Jump Into Ireland

Jump Into Ireland

Tourism Ireland kicks off 2012 with the roll-out of a brand new global advertising campaign – ‘Jump into Ireland’ – to promote the island of Ireland overseas over the next few years.

Jump Into Ireland

Jump Into Ireland

The campaign goes live on television in Great Britain, our largest and most important tourism market, today on channels including ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky 1 and satellite channels. The new ads will also appear on TV in France and Germany; in cinemas in GB and the US, Spain and Italy; on outdoor sites in GB; and online in the other 22 markets in which Tourism Ireland has a presence to an estimated audience of 200 million potential visitors worldwide.

The soundtrack for the TV ads is taken from the latest album, Fallen Empires, by Co. Down band Snow Patrol. The tagline for the new campaign – ‘Jump into Ireland’ – is designed to convey a sense of playfulness and to reflect the immersive nature of a holiday here (especially Donegal) with iconic experiences and warm, friendly people.

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