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Top 10 most colourful towns and villages in Ireland When it comes to charm, Ireland boasts an abundance – and can you think of anything more charming than a colourful Irish village? Like splatters of paint among the rolling green fields of the Emerald Isle, Ireland is dotted with charming towns and villages you just need to visit. Here are the top ten most colourful towns and villages in Ireland. From quiet fishing villages to lively towns filled with traditional Irish pubs, each of these spots have a unique character that you won’t want to miss. As colourful as the personalities of the E...

A plan to start charging for the use of slipways on the north Down coast and Ards Peninsula is to be put out to consultation. Ards and North Down Borough Council officials have proposed charging £50 per year, or one-off payments of £5 per launch, for vessels entering and leaving the Irish Sea and Strangford Lough. The council is responsible for slipways at Portaferry, Holywood, Groomsport, Donaghadee, Millisle, Ballywalter, and Ballyhalbert. Groomsport is the only one that has a yearly fee of £103, or £8.40 per launch. A council report on the matter said several of the slipways faced prob...

Where The Independent’s travel desk wants to go this summer Travel Desk © Provided by The Independent The government’s roadmap out of lockdown sets out specific dates for when we’re allowed to travel again. At the moment, all leisure travel, both domestic and international, is banned; but that hasn’t stopped sun-starved Britons from booking holidays in their thousands, if booking data from travel companies is anything to go by. In the week of the roadmap announcements, tour operator Tui saw a 600 per cent jump in summer holiday bookings, while Ryanair and easyJet rev...

Peninsulas have good points! Who needs to sail off to an island when you can just walk to these British beauty spots? The Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall is the UK's most southerly point and has drawn innovators as well as visitors Wales is a peninsula of peninsulas – a favourite is the Marloes, jutting out from the Pembrokeshire coast  The Shotley Peninsula, a small, flat stretch of land between two Suffolk rivers, has inspired artists and writers 

Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 05.19 EST Along a crooked finger-shaped peninsula between a lough created by the ice age and the Irish Sea, locals are hoping for a post-pandemic tourism boost from a dark new TV drama about a Troubles-era killer emerging again in the present day. Hoteliers, distillers, B&B owners and others living on the Ards Peninsula believe the BBC-produced Bloodlands will do for their bucolic corner of Northern Ireland what the global fantasy series Game of Throneshas done for other parts of the region. Over the past decade, some of the most lavish scenes from G oT wer...