Liam Neeson Wants To Wish You a Happy St. Patrick's Day #GoGreen4PatricksDay

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Mar 11, 2015, 12:49 ET

NEW YORK, March 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The best place to be on St. Patrick's Day is Ireland. Check out our #GoGreen4PatricksDay video below with the wonderful Liam Neeson. The St Patrick's Festival is truly one of the great spectacles of the world — a week-long celebration of music, dance and outdoor shows culminating in the stunning St. Patrick's Day parade through the historic streets of Dublin on March 17th.

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Liam Neeson wants to wish you Happy St Patrick's Day.

Every day is green along Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way

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One can also visit the beautiful town of Downpatrick where St Patrick is buried and check out the St Patrick's centre which is the world's only permanent exhibit to St Patrick. The St Patrick's festival is the highlight of the early vacation season and what a year 2015 is going to be.

Highlights for this year include –

Irish Design 2015 - a year-long programme exploring, promoting and celebrating all aspects of Irish Design. http://www.irishdesign2015.ie/

Yeats 150 – a celebration of cultural and artistic events marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Irish Nobel prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats. http://yeats2015.com/

The Irish Open Golf tournament which will see Ireland's great golf champions, led by Rory McIlroy, take on the worlds best at the stunning Royal County Down golf club. http://www.irishopen.ie/

#GoGreen4PatricksDay Tourism Ireland's global greening campaign has seen many iconic landmarks around the world go green on March 17th. This year the famous Colosseum in Rome, The Sacre Coeur in Paris and The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville will join the illustrious group.

Things to see and do –

The Wild Atlantic Way is the longest designated driving route in the world. Stretching from the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal to Kinsale in County Cork, the route will offer visitors an opportunity to truly discover Ireland's breath taking West Coast.

The Causeway Coastal route is a journey of discovery around the coast of Northern Ireland between the cities of Belfast and Derry. Follow in the footsteps of saints, warriors and poets through the beautiful Glens of Antrim and along the Causeway Coast where many of the scenes from HBO's Game of Thrones are filmed.

For more information on these stories visit our Media room at www.tourismirelandinfo.com

For information on traveling to Ireland visit www.Ireland.com

SOURCE Tourism Ireland