THE Marble Arch Caves reopened for guided tours today (Monday, May 24), following the gradual easing of lockdown restrictions. From today, visitors can enter a world of subterranean rivers, winding passages, lofty chambers and an array of spectacular cave formations by pre-booking a cave tour on the Marble Arch Caves website or by contacting the visitor centre directly. With hand-sanitising stations, directional signage, pre-booking and numbers limited for tours, visitors will have the time and space to enjoy the million-year-old cave network and appreciate why it is the most active river cave in the UK and Ireland. The Chair of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Councillor Diana Armstrong, welcomed the reopening of the Marble Arch Caves as another welcome step as we move into the summer holiday period .
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Saturday 3 April 2021
With a landscape that has inspired childhood classics and served as the backdrop for fantasy blockbusters, Northern Ireland has natural wonders and a fascinating historical and cultural blend within its diminutive borders. See the sights with these road trip ideas.
Causeway Coastal Route
Causeway Coastal Route
Northern Ireland’s headlining drive threads its way along a varied, 130-mile route that hugs the Antrim coast between Belfast and Londonderry. Must-see stops along the way include the remarkable UNESCO World Heritage-listed rock formations of the Giant’s Causeway and the haunting outline of Dunluce Castle on a rocky Atlantic Ocean outcrop. Leave the car behind for the leg-wobbling walk across the rope bridge and book ahead for the restored Edwardian Gobbins Cliff Path: an unforgettable meander along the coast via tunnels and trails with vertiginous views of the ocean swirling below. Work up an appetite on the National Trust-owned Portstewart Stra
MEMORIES and experiences of growing up in rural Fermanagh continue to influence the work of artist Amanda Montgomery, who is now based in Belfast. A fine artist, Amanda s pieces vary from paintings to sculpture, and the materials she uses always depends on the subject matter of her works. Here she talks to The Impartial Reporter about her artistic background, her artistic style and what art means to her. What is your artistic background? I MOVED from Fermanagh to Belfast to study Foundation Art at the University of Ulster. Furthering my studies at Coventry School of Art and Design, I graduated with a BA Honours First Class in Fine Art.