REGIONAL TOUR GUIDES AND VIDEOS WILL HELP UNVEIL THE HIDDEN GEMS OF MONAGHAN

The county of Monaghan might not have been seen traditionally as a tourist destination, but that is now changing, according to Mary Mullen from Knockatallon, the Chair of Monaghan Integrated Development. She was speaking in Castleblayney on Friday at the launch of a leaflet marketing the services of seventeen new regional tour guides and three national ones living here.

Each of the guides has also recorded a short video telling their own stories about what their part of the county can offer. Ms Mullen told the group: “Coming from a rural community background I can see at first hand what tourism development can do for an area. When we began work in Knockatallon on the Sliabh Beagh Hotel and Tourism Centre, the attitude of many would have been ‘what is way out there to attract visitors?’ The past twenty years have shown that there are lots of attractions ‘way out there’”. “Because we in Monaghan don’t have any of the major tourist attractions like the Cliffs of Moher or the Giant’s Causeway, we need tour guides to show people where our hidden…