New head for Clare Tourism Forum

DONNAGH Gregson of the Bunratty Cookery School is the new chair of the Clare Tourism Forum, succeeding Barbara Faulkner in the role.
She says it is important to promote what the Banner County has to offer, adding that much work has been done on making The Gathering a success in Clare.
“I suppose that what we would be facing is that everyone is trying very hard to promote their county and we have to try and show that Clare is the county to come to above others. We are handling the Gathering quite well and I think we have the fifth-highest amount of events in the whole country, so we’re doing quite well on that.”
She said the forum is drawing expertise from across the public and private sectors.
“We have some quite successful tourism business people and it’s a mixture between private and public sectors. We have Shannon Development in and we’d also have people like myself and Mark Nolan from Dromoland as members. We meet on a monthly basis and the subgroups would meet more often.”