Cruises and Cruise Liner Visits to Ireland
#WaterfordCrystalCruises – Opening the Port of Waterford's cruise season next Monday is Noble Caledonia's Island Sky, the 118 passenger and 77-crew vessel is to dock along the city's quays, writes Jehan Ashmore. Island Sky is the first of 17 cruise…
#CruiseBelfast – Discovery is to open the Belfast Harbour cruise season in late March with up to 750 passengers calling to the port out of a total of 110,000 visitors expected this year, writes Jehan Ashmore. In 2013, Belfast Harbour…
Christmas 'Irish Show Cruise' From Dublin to Feature Music & Comedy Talent
27th January 2014 Cruise Liners
Stars from across Ireland have signed up to take the trip of a lifetime, on board a special cruise celebrating the best in Irish music and comedy talent. The eight-night Christmas Market Irish Show Cruise 2014 will depart from Dublin…
#CruiseLiners – Celebrating its 25th year of making holidaymakers dreams come true, the Holiday World Show, Dublin returns to the RDS Simmonscourt Pavillon in Ballsbridge, starting tomorrow and over the weekend of 25-26th January. The show is a one-stop shop…
#Cruises - Cruise Ireland's members will meet in January to discuss controversial proposals to change the way the organisation is funded. At November's board meeting of the industry body representing interests in the Irish cruise industry, the Port of Cork's…
New Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship ‘Anthem’ to Homeport in Southampton
23rd November 2013 Cruise Liners
#UKanthem - Royal Caribbean International (RCI) will base its newest 'Quantum' class 158,000 tons ship Anthem of the Seas in Southampton from April 2015 according to CruiseCritic which predicted back in September. The 4,180-passenger ship which is being built in…
#portofcork – The Port of Cork welcomed MV Albatros, the final cruise liner of the 2013 season to Cobh today following what the Port of Cork confirmed as the 'busiest cruise season on record for Cork'. In total, 62 cruise…
#CruiseLiners - Dublin Port welcomed its millionth cruise liner passenger to the capital this morning (Friday 27 September) since numbers were kept 20 years ago. As Business & Leadership reports, Diane Taylor from Newfoundland in Canada disembarked from the Carnival…
Port of Cork Signs Up to Atlantic Alliance Cruise Ship Destination Project
23rd September 2013 Cruise Liners
#atlanticalliance – The ATLANTIC ALLIANCE is a marketing project of 18 ports along Europe's West coast between Hamburg and Lisbon, including Britain and now an Irish port. The project highlights to cruise companies that there is in Europe an attractive…
#CruiseLiners - The 'floating university' MV Explorer is due to dock at Dublin Port tonight 20 September, according to The Irish Times. Last year the cruise liner, which operates as part of the University of Virginia's Semester at Sea study…
Cruise Passenger Numbers Visiting Ireland Could Quadruple Over Next Decade
18th September 2013 Cruise Liners
#CruiseLiners - Cruise passenger numbers visiting Ireland could quadruple over the next decade if the right facilities are in place, an Oireachtas Joint Committee has heard. Chairwoman designate of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, Eithne Scott Lennon said the south…
#CostaConcordia - There were celebrations all round on the Tuscan island of Giglio early yesterday as the operation to raise the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia was successful in lifting the ship upright, The Irish Times reports. The video above…
A ‘Legend’ Visits Dublin Port Prior to Trans-Atlantic Repositioning Cruise
17th September 2013 Cruise Liners
#CarnivalCruises- The 293m long Carnival Legend docked in Dublin Port this morning prior to making a repositioning trans-Atlantic cruise next week, writes Jehan Ashmore. Carnival Legend arrived overnight from the Greenock, the cruise port for Glasgow which too welcomed the…
#CostaConcordia - The salvage master charged with righting the ill-fated cruise liner Costa Concordia has spoken of the risks involved in the task. Still lying in her side on the Italian coast off Tuscany after grounding in the shallows on…
#FredOlsen - Boudicca (1973/28,388grt) of the Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines docked in Dublin Port yesterday to embark Irish passengers on a direct no flights cruise to Iberian ports, writes Jehan Ashmore. The call to Dublin was to take senior citizens…
#MunsterCruise – German tourists are on a cruise around Ireland which included a visit to Foynes yesterday followed by a short overnight passage to Cobh today, writes Jehan Ashmore. The cruise on board Phoenix Reisen's Amadea 29,008 tonnes vessel marked…
