NEW Fright Night Bus Tour launches October 09
The launch by Dualway of the Fright Night Bus was frighteningly well received by visitors and Dubliner’s this October. Providing passengers with a frightening new way to experience Dublin’s darker side, the Fright Night Bus was booked out through Halloween week. Due to popular demand this tour will continue on a private hire basis for Christmas Party Nights out 2009. Contact ailbhe@irishcitytours.com
Model Nadia Forde and Paddy Drac launch the Fright Night Bus
Awards
New Dualway Identity Wins Awards October 2009
The new Dualway image/logo wins best Livery in the Fleet Magazine Coach & Bus Awards. Dualway's new identity also receives a commendation at the IDI (Institute of Design in Ireland) Awards.
 Fleet Magazine Coach & Bus Livery Award October 2009 received by David McConn
Annual Barretstown Fundraiser 2009
The City Sightseeing Dublin team pulled out all the stops on July 9th. Local celebrities including Dublin´s Lord Major joined forces to make the Board a Bus for Barretstown Day another great success. Funds raised on the day came to €3500 bringing the total fundraising total to date to €22,000!
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City Sightseeing Dublin & Santa hand over cheque to Barretstown – Dec 08
The City Sightseeing team, their families and Santa Claus took time out from the Christmas Kiddies Party to hand over a cheque for €5000 to Barretstown Camp. The funds were raised for the team’s favourite children’s charity during the Board a Bus for Barretstown Day which took place during the summer. The proceeds from the annual fundraiser which has run for the past three years brings the total funds raised to date to €18,500.
Annual Barretstown Fundraiser 2008
For the third year (and despite another wet summer day), City Sightseeing´s "Board a Bus" fundraiser for Barretstown was a great success
The "Board a Bus Day", which took place on July 10th, was launched by local celebs Senator David Norris, TV presenter Colette Fitzpatrick and Irish Rugby Ace Gordon Darcy along with some of the Barretstown campers who were entertained by the Lambert Puppet Show on board the bus.
On July 20th the City Sightseeing drivers and guides in both Dublin and Kilkenny were kitted out in Barretstown T-shirts and lent their support by drumming up ticket sales (all proceeds on the day going to Barretstown) and in some cases donating their wages and tips on the day to the charity. The proceeds from the "Board a Bus for Barretstown" event brings the total funds raised to date to €18,500.
Senator David Norris, TV celebrity Colette Fitzpatric and Rugby star Gordon Darcy joined Barretstown Campers to launch the Board a Bus Day 2008
Rugby Ace Gordon Darcy with Barretstown Campers
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Tourism Goes Irish!
Wednesday 11th June, 2008: City Sightseeing Dublin are delighted to announce that Visitors to Dublin can now enjoy all the sites and stories of Ireland’s capital city in Irish on the award winning multi-lingual Dublin City Tour.
The new Irish language service was launched by Dublin footballer and Irish speaker Jason Sherlock at Áras Chronain N.S., Clondalkin today. Also at the launch were the colourful traditional Irish folk band Kila and the students of Áras Chronain.
David McConn, General Manager of The Dualway Group/ City Sightseeing Dublin said "As an Irish speaker it was a proud moment to see Irish being recognised as an official European language. We felt it was time to recognise our Irish customer’s right to the choice of enjoying and learning about Dublin in English or as Gaeilge."
"Now domestic visitors and school tours to Dublin can choose to enjoy a live guided tour of the city in English or they can hop on our Multilingual Tour and listen to an audio commentary by a native Irish speaker, from Kerry! We have worked closely with Foras na Gaeilge to ensure that the Irish tour is of the highest standard," he said.
Speaking on behalf of Foras na Gaeilge, Gearóid Trimble said, "We at Foras na Gaeilge want to congratulate The Dualway Group for their commitment to the Irish language. The introduction of the language to the multi-lingual Dublin City Tour gives due recognition to the importance of our language in the culture and history of our capital city."
City Sightseeing Dublin has also just introduced a text screen for passengers who are hard of hearing. The screen features the text version of the full commentary (in English) and is available on the newest tour vehicle on the fleet.
Launching the new Gaeilge service: Jason Sherlock and a pupil from Áras Chronain N.S
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City Sightseeing Dublin go Green!
As the first Irish company to operate a Multi-lingual Tour of Dublin, City Sightseeing Dublin celebrated the arrival of its newest zero emission tour bus in style at City West Hotel.
The launch of the new prototype vehicles was officiated by local politician Minister Mary Harney (who took time out of her busy election campaign trail) and was attended by tourism and transport representatives and local businesses.
The launch marked the following exciting features of the City Sightseeing Dublin Multi-lingual Tour:
- The addition of two new green vehicles - these prototype Euro 4 compliant vehicles are the ultimate in near zero emissions
- Increase in tour departure frequency to every 20 minutes (from every 40 minutes!)
- The addition of two wheelchair accessible vehicles to the Multi-lingual Tour (bringing the total wheelchair accessible fleet to 5!)
- Multilingual commentary in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Japanese!
- Special Kid's commentary available for under 10's
From left, Local TD Minister Mary Harney launches the newest bus to join the
City Sightseeing Multi-lingual fleet, with Managing Director, Tony McConn
and General Manager, David McConn
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| Annual Barretstown Charity Fundraiser Day 2007
For the second year running the City Sightseeing Dublin team helped raise funds for the much loved childrens´ charity Barretstown Camp . All takings for Friday, May 11th were donated to Barretstown as part of the annual Board a Bus for Barretstown fundraiser day. Despite the rain the day proved to be a great success bringing the total funds raised to date to €13,500.
City Sightseeing Dublin General Manager, David McConn said: The drivers, guides, sales team and management of City Sightseeing Dublin are delighted to know that the money raised this year and last year has helped send four children with serious illnesses to Barretstown Camp.
The camp, the only one of its kind in Europe, is linked with Paul Newman´ Hole in the Wall Gang in the US. The cost of putting one child through the camp for 10 days is €3500. Barretstown hosts children and their families from all over Ireland, the UK and Europe.
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From Left: Patrick Quinn of Barretstown receives cheque from Local TD Minister, Mary Harney and City Sightseeing Dublin General Manager, David McConn
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Dublin Tourism Chief, Frank Magee presenting the Dublin Tourism Business Award to Linda McConn, Marketing and David McConn, General Manager of the Dualway Group.
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Dualway Group win Dublin Tourism Award 2007
The Dualway Group, who operate the global sightseeing brands City Sightseeing and Gray Line, were awarded the coveted Dublin Tourism Business Award on Thursday, April 19th. The company received the award for their pioneering multilingual Dublin City Tour which features commentary in 6 languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese and Russian) as well as a Kid's commentary.
The Group and its 120 strong staff faced stiff competition for the prestigious award, which recognises those businesses that have contributed to the continuing success of tourism throughout Dublin through their innovation, professionalism and high standards. The Dualway Group's General Manager, David McConn said:"We are very proud to have been recognised for the City Sightsseing Multilingual Tour. This award also recognises the professionalism and dedication of each of our staff who have helped to enhance the holiday experience of 300,000 visitors to Dublin last year."
The award was presented by Dublin Tourism chief, Frank Magee and Dublin's Lord Mayor Councillor Vincent Jackson.
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Optimus Ireland’s Best Service Excellence Award
Optimus is an innovative, multi-tiered programme supporting the tourism industry. The three tiers of the Optimus Programme, operated by Fáilte Ireland and audited independently, comprehensively appraise adherence to prescribed standards.
Dualway have achieved the Ireland’s Best Service Excellence Award through delivering a consistently high standard of customer service on a continuous basis.
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Board a Bus for Barretstown Charity Fundraiser 2006
All City Sightseeing Dublin passengers who travelled on the Dublin Tour or Multilingual Tour on Thursday, July 20th helped to support the well loved Childrens Charity Barretstown Camp.
Barretstown Camp, which hosts children with serious illnesses, is the only one of its kind in Ireland and is affiliated with Paul Newman´s Hole in Wall Gang in the US. The City Sightseeing team helped to raise a total of €7000 from ticket sales on board the City Sightseeing Dublin and Multi-lingual Tours helping send two children to its Kildare based camp for 10 days. For more information on Barretstown go to www.barretstown.org
David Norris, Ken Doherty and Dublin’s Lord Major with local
celebrities on board the Board a Bus for Barretstown Day last year
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