Stephen Porzio

Tourism Ireland and Tourism Minister Shane Ross TD have launched a €12 million multi-media autumn campaign to boost late-season travel to Ireland from around the world. The September to December period usually yields as much as 30 per cent…

Following the success of its 2018 event, the much anticipated Vinyl Festival returns to Dún Laoghaire from November 1- 3, promising once again to be an unmissable experience for music fans and vinyl record aficionados. The festival will…

Keith Barry, the world’s leading TV hypnotist, mentalist and brain hacker, has just announced details of his brand new show Insanity, which he is set to tour across Ireland from December 2019 to March 2020. Billed as the internationally…

dlr Mill Theatre in Dundrum is set to host another Billy Roche (The Wexford Trilogy) tour de force for two nights this September 6 - 7 with The Diary of Maynard Perdu. The play is set in the fantastic, mirrored, burlesque world of the…

Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), announced today daa has won a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award at the Esri International User Conference. The event took place in San Diego. daa was chosen ahead…

Following a sold out Dublin show last year, Jools Holland has confirmed a 3Arena date on October 23, 2020 with his acclaimed Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. Just like his previous Dublin shows, Holland will be joined on vocals by Ruby Turner …

The Irish Film Institute (IFI) has announced the programme for its 17th IFI Documentary Festival. With fifteen features and its perennially popular shorts strand, the event will once again showcase the very best of Irish and international…

Les McKeown’s Bay City Rollers have announced an Olympia Theatre date on December 4 to celebrate 45 years of Rollermania. The legendary 70's pop rock group are best known for their tracks ‘Remember (Sha-la-la-la)’, ‘Shang-a-Lang’,…

Ireland will be seen by more than 900,000 people across Germany later this year as Tourism Ireland, in conjunction with Fáilte Ireland, invited a popular travel programme called Grenzenlos – Die Welt Entdecken (meaning ‘Without borders –…

Marina Carr’s Hecuba will have its Irish premiere in a major new production at the Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Hecuba is a re-imagining of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the events surrounding its …

Long known as the spiritual home of puppetry in Ireland - on September 21, Monkstown in Co Dublin will host its very own International Puppet Festival (MIPF). The event will feature a mix of ticketed and free events showcasing incredible…

Popular Italian travel magazine In Viaggio has dedicated its entire August issue to Ireland. The bumper ‘Irlanda 2019’ edition will reach around 40,000 Italian travellers – or potential holidaymakers – over the coming weeks. Tourism Ireland…

More than 100 of the UK’s top event planners and suppliers have converged in Belfast for the 2019 Conference and Incentive Travel (C&IT) Summit and Agency Forum, the flagship annual gathering for event professionals. Currently under way…

The Miami Showband Story, a new stage musical about the iconic act once hailed as ‘the Irish Beatles’, is to hit theatres across Ireland this August and September. The group’s hay day was in the 60’s and 70’s where they entertained both…

The picturesque Co Waterford fishing village of Dunmore is set to play host to the 25th Dunmore East Bluegrass Festival, returning to its shores from Thursday, August 22 to Sunday, August 25. Fans of bluegrass, honky-tonk, blues, country,…