Irish Ferries wins ‘Best Ferry Company’ accolade for the seventh year in a row
IRISH Ferries has joined the winners’ enclosure once again, having been voted Ireland’s ‘Best Ferry Company 2017’ for the 7th year in succession at the recent Irish Travel Industry Awards.
Their latest success brings to three, the number of ‘Best Ferry Company’ titles currently held by the company, having also been awarded the top honour at the recent 2016 Irish Travel Trade News Awards and 2016 Travel Media Awards.
An initiative of the Irish Travel Agents Association, the award was presented to Irish Ferries on foot of votes cast by Irish travel agents and suppliers at a gala banquet hosted by RTE’s Miriam O’Callaghan in the Mansion House, Dublin.
Accepting the award, Irish Ferries’ head of passenger sales Dermot Merrigan thanked travel agents for their support, adding: ‘Irish Ferries is incredibly honoured that our efforts to provide the highest possible level of service continue to be recognised and, once again, we look forward to working closely with our travel agents in 2017.’
Irish Ferries operates ferries to both the UK and Cherbourg and Roscoff in France from Rosslare Europort, where the company’s operations are one of the mainstays of the local economy. Irish Ferries inaugurated its service between Rosslare and Roscoff in summer 1995, to compliment the company’s then-established services to Normandy, via Cherbourg and Le Havre and to provide passengers with a direct service to and from Brittany, a region popular with Irish holidaymakers. Since its introduction, the route has been serviced by the vessels St Patrick II, St Killian II, Normandy and the present cruise ferry, the Oscar Wilde.
Irish Ferries have a new €144 million ferry on order that is due to go into service out of Dublin next year.