Holiday World 2010
Great Prizes to be won plus get your exclusive Holiday Discount
Book your next Short Break here on www.ShortBreaksIreland.ie using the promotional code PROMOHOLIDAYWORLD and recieve an exclusive 10% off your holiday booking.
Book before February 5th 2010 and travel before March 31st 2010.
Great Holiday Prizes to be won !
For information on how to enter these great holiday prizes listen into.....
Prize One: €400 holiday voucher for www.ShortBreaksIreland.ie – choose from hundreds of great breaks throughout the Shannon Region - from horse racing, Spa breaks, Shopping breaks, surfing breaks, golf breaks and much much more………The choice is yours!!
Prize Two: One Night's Dinner Bed and Breakfast at the beautiful Dunraven Arms Hotel www.DunravenHotel.com
– Located in Irelands prettiest village Adare, Co. Limerick – plus 2 passes to the Foynes Flying Boat Museum in Foynes, Co. Limerick . The Foynes Flying Boat Museum is dedicated to recalling the historic time from 1939 to 1945, when Foynes, Ireland, became the center of the aviation world. On July 9th 1939, Pan Am's luxury Flying Boat, the "Yankee Clipper" landed at Foynes. This was the first commercial passenger flight on a direct route from the USA to Europe.
Prize Three: Weekend Break with the Lynch Hotels www.Lynchotels.com (choose from one of a Chain of 5 hotels located throughout the Shannon Region) – plus 2 tickets to your choice of 4 Shannon Heritage Evening Entertainments – Choose from a Medieval Banquet at the world famous Bunratty Castle, Dunguaire Castle, Knappogue or enjoy a traditional Irish Night at the Cornbarn in Bunratty Castle Folk Park.
Some interesting facts from Ireland’s Shannon Region
that will help you to win one of these exciting holiday prizes!
The Inventor of the modern submarine was born just a short distance from the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare. John Philip Holland was born in 1841 in the village of Liscannor, just as few kilometres south of the Cliffs.
The Cliffs of Moher stand at 200 metres above sea level with the Atlantic Ocean pounding the rocks below.
The Poulnabrone Dolmen in the Burren, Co. Clare is in fact a prehistoric tomb. Excatvation has revealed that over 30 Neolithic people are buried under its massive stones.
There is a walking tour based on the locations featured in Angela’s Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize winning book Frank McCourt that tells the gritty story of an impoverished Limerick boyhood in the 30’s and 40’s
Leap Castle, near Kinnitty, Co. Offaly is reputed to be Ireland’s most haunted castle. Gory murders are said to have taken place high in the tower and an evil smelling creature, half human and half beast still haunts the lower levels.
Irelands only burial pyramid is in Kinnitty. The 30 foot high crypt was built by Lt. Col Richard W. Bernard on his return from Egypt in the mid 1800’s as an exact replica of Egypt’s Pyramid of Cheop and there are six coffins in the sealed vault.
The great Stalactite in Doolin Cave measuring 6.54m (20 feet) is the longest stalactite in the northern hemisphere.
Amongst the art and antiquities in Limerick’s Hunt Museum you will find a bronze horse by Leonardo da Vinci.
