• Salivate at the famous Bushmills whiskey distillery (website: www.bushmills.com).

• Enjoy a pint of Guinness in the National Trust-owned Crown Liquor Saloon (website: www.crownbar.com), an ornate Victorian public house opposite Belfast's Grand Opera House (website: www.goh.co.uk).

• Take a boat trip to the monastic ruins of Devenish Island, in County Fermanagh (website: www.fermanaghlakelands.com), to the southwest of the province.

• Visit what is alleged to be St Patrick's Grave at Down Cathedral (website: www.downcathedral.org), Downpatrick.

• Play golf on great courses found on the coastline, including Royal Portrush (website: www.royalportrush.com) and Royal County Down at Newcastle (website: www.royalcountydown.org).

• Escape to the tranquillity of the Silent Valley in County Down (website: www.newryandmourne.gov.uk/tourism/activities/forest/silent_valley.asp) and the remarkable Mountains of Mourne.

See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.