I particularly like this from David Wilkinson’s talent, showing a priest in Doolin, Co. Clare. As well as being remeniscent of a scene from ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ this image also has a beautiful little punchline of humour when you zoom up close. What else could complete such a story in this image better than a half pint in the priest’s hand,…poetry….thank’s David.

Agnes Abou Assaf is doing remarkably well in what I would concider to be our most difficult regions, the Midlands East, containing eight counties, with it’s attractions mostly off the beaten track, especially if your hitch hiking. But she is still managing to fill her albums with quality images despite the weather, and with the possitive attiude that she always brings to her work.

Erin, at last, Waterford crystal,..our most famous product, I was starved for good images from the factory. Some realy nice work in your albums on the craftsmen, thank you.

Although Joy is up in the North west writing, she still manages to find time to photograph her experiences and share them with us in the gallery, who would have thought that you could find a Buddhist Retreat in Co. Cavan?

Keep up the good work and look forward to meeting up with you all later this month.

Philip Watkin

The sooner we get these the sooner we can start posting this great content to our website.

I hope to have a link up soon to our gallery so that we can get some feedback on whats in there.

I’m sure you will enjoy the articles of which I’m going to publish some examples tomorrow.

So check back soon and make up your mind.

Last Wednesday myself (Robert Carpenter) and Philip Watkin made the long journey from our West Cork office to the Hotel Meyrick in Galway to meet all this years eager writers and photographers. After 6 hours in the car we got to meet and say hello to Joy (and her husband Paul), David, Liz, Erin, Joe and Agnes.

We all sat down for a nice dinner and used this opportunity to get to know each other a little better and provide answers to all their questions and ask some questions of our own. Everyone had questions on their assigned regions - methods of transport, internet accessibility, accommodation, camping facilities, car rental and car purchase to name but a few.

On the Thursday we ran a workshop in the Hotel which we used to tell everyone a little more about our company and the programs objectives as well as the priorities namely content submission (uploading images to our gallery and sending through of Travel articles) , using Spark our in-house communications tool, accommodation listings and some regional information.
The participants will be expected to submit content weekly which will then be reviewed by myguideTravel and Tourism Ireland and eventually published to our websites and made available for third party use.

After some internet problems in the hotel and some last minute car organising, we finally got through everything and then it was time to say goodbye and let all the guys and girls loose on Ireland to explore, experience and share their tales throughout their travels in Ireland.

Here’s looking forward to the content they produce and make sure to come back and sample some of their work of which i expect to have some at the end of this week.