Ireland - Youth & Adventure Buyers Guide 2018/2019

ISLAND HOPPING If ‘total escape’ is called for, we recommend your clients experience the awesome power, beauty and wonder of Ireland from a different perspective. Get up close and personal to the energy and the uninterrupted calm of the islands off the mainland – some 27 of them off theWild AtlanticWay! Easily accessible by boat, plane, and sometimes by road, the islands of theWest Coast are home to farmers’ markets and festivals, currach races and spectacular diving, nature’s flora fauna and wildlife as well as fishing, cycling, walking, art classes, language and cookery schools, wild food foraging and traditional music. 5 6 GONE FISHING + COOK YOUR CATCH Long recognised as one of theWorld’s premier sea angling destinations, Ireland’s spectacular 3000 km of varied coastline, means visitors can fish for over 80 species – even a 400kg six-gilled shark! Sea Fishing is what much of the Island’s international fishing reputation is built on so if your clients sea legs are designed for sea angling they will be spoiled for choice with with over 100 top quality state certified skippered charter boats and guides available to book. For visitors who have dreamt about catching a salmon or trout, then our inshore fishing (coarse and game angling) on the island’s 16,000km of river channels and over 500,000 acres of loughs is considered among the last refuges for wild salmon and sea trout in Europe. Here too, the Great Fishing Houses of Ireland properties, ranging from guesthouses to country pursuit hotels and stately manor homes, can arrange everything from your client’s accommodation to fishing equipment, tackle & licences and a Ghilly. At the end of the day, they will even cook your clients catch for dinner! 12 Sea Angling Aran Islands, Co. Galway