Ireland set for record cruise liner season as over 100 ships set to hit shores this year

The cruise season begins from March 27 when the first major cruise liner arrives in Dublin.

The Viking Vela will bring almost 1,000 passengers to Dublin – but it will be just the first in a fleet of over 100 vessels to berth between March and November.

Cork will welcome 93 cruise liners with the first vessel due to arrive in early April.

Belfast is expected to handle almost 150 cruise liners – and the season will mark the 1,500th cruise liner visit for the historic port.

Last year Belfast welcomed 260,000 cruise liner passengers and crew in a bumper year for the port.

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Almost 750,000 passengers and crew visited the three major ports – bringing a multi-million Euro tourism boom.

Cruise liner passengers are the heaviest spending bracket of the entire tourism sector.

Dublin will this year welcome some of the biggest liners afloat including Cunard’s Queen Anne on May 29 with…

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