The public has one last chance to help Shannon Airport secure a new route next summer.

A new association representing the chauffeur drive industry has been established in the western seaboard counties and will meet in Co Clare tonight.

A model for sustainable tourism destination development that can be implemented by destination managers across the world will be unveiled at a major international conference at the Falls Hotel & Spa in Ennistymon, County Clare, Ireland, on 23 November.

Loop Head Lighthouse has recorded an increase in visitor numbers for a sixth successive year with latest figures for 2017 showing that 14,227 visiting the County Clare attraction between March and September.

Shannon Airport has been included in a list of routes that a German airline is allowing the public to vote for.

The opening today of the final 57km of the M17 M18 motorway will not only bring immediate economic benefits to towns and cities along the Atlantic Economic Corridor but it will support the development of the entire Shannon basin and act as the mobility backbone that improves the north-south flow along the Wild Atlantic Way.

Shannon Group and Shannon Airport believed the opening of the M18 Gort to Tuam motorway will provide an unprecedented opportunity to advance the case of a western economic corridor.

Air Canada has confirmed plans fly a new direct service from Shannon to Toronto next summer.