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Bushmills Irish Whiskey is made at Ireland’s oldest working distillery in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The brand portfolio includes five award-winning whiskeys: Bushmills, Black Bush, Bushmills 10 year Malt, Bushmills 16 year Malt and Bushmills 21 year Malt.Bushmills is the only distillery in Ireland to make triple-distilled malt whiskey. This is at the heart of [...]

Picturesque fishing village under the cliff at the end of White Park Bay. The name means ‘port of the Salmon’ and the Salmon fishery still exists. The church dedicated to St. Gobban (privately owned) is said to be the smallest in Ireland, but the remains of an even smaller one (St. Lasseraghs) stands on the [...]

Dear Maurice,   Thank you very much for the excellent day of touring you provided for us on Friday August 28, 2009.   Not familiar with the territory, we made contact with you though a US agency, and you took our thoughts, gathered from guidebooks, and devised an excellent itinerary to see the most in the time we had [...]

  A tour of Ireland would not be complete without visiting Northern Ireland’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Giant’s Causeway, renowned for its polygonal columns of layered basalt, is the only World Heritage Site in Northern Ireland. Resulting from a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago, this is the focal point of a designated Area of [...]

Dunluce Castle; perched on a great crag over the sea, it is very epitome of romanticism; It once belonged to the Madevilles, a French family who took the Irish sounding name of McQuillans and held it until Sorley Boy MacDonnell captured it by a ruse. In the mid-seventeenth century Sorley Boy’s decendants, the Earls of [...]

Why not visit Ireland in 2010. We can arrange tours of Ireland. Take in the cities of Limerick , Cork , Galway , Dublin , and Belfast. Our day tours allow trips such as the spectacular North Antrim coast visiting the Giants Causeway , Dunluce castle and Glens of Antrim. Or the sweeping Mountains of Mourne and County [...]