Northern Ireland

North’s tourism gems to feature on Australian TV travel show

Episode of Postcards will screen in Australia in November

The film crew for Australian travel TV show Postcards enjoying a tour of the Old Bushmills Distillery, with Aoife Costello, Tourism Ireland (left); presenter Brodie Harper (third left); and Laura Adams, Old Bushmills Distillery (second right).
The film crew for Australian travel TV show Postcards enjoying a tour of the Old Bushmills Distillery, with Aoife Costello, Tourism Ireland (left); presenter Brodie Harper (third left); and Laura Adams, Old Bushmills Distillery (second right). (Tourism Ireland)
By Paul Ainsworth

The best of the north’s tourism offerings is to be featured on one of Australia’s most popular TV travel shows.

Postcards, which is broadcast on Australia’s Nine Network, will showcase destinations across the north of Ireland, including Co Donegal, in an episode to be screened in November.

Presenter Brodie Harper and the Postcards film crew toured Belfast and Co Down, before travelling along the Causeway Coastal Route towards Donegal.

Along the way, they filmed at locations including Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, the Old Bushmills Distillery, the Giant’s Causeway and Glenveagh National Park.

A Fisherman at Glenveagh National Park in Donegal. PICTURE COLM LENAGHAN
Glenveagh National Park in Co Donegal. PICTURE COLM LENAGHAN

While in Belfast, the Postcards team enjoyed the city’s Traditional Music Trail, and in Co Down Brodie took part in a bushcraft and wild cooking experience at Finnebrogue Woods at the southern end of Strangford Lough.

Tourism Ireland’s Sofia Hansson said: “We were delighted to invite Brodie Harper and the Postcards crew to come and film on our beautiful island.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity to highlight our stunning scenery and our fantastic cultural and culinary experiences to more than 200,000 Australians, inspiring them to come and experience the destination for themselves.”