Dublin Business School ( DBS ) is Ireland's largest private third level institution with over 9, 000 students.

The National Aquatic Centre in Blanchardstown is Ireland's largest indoor water leisure facility.

In Northern Ireland, the largest Pro-Belfast Agreement party, Sinn Féin, not only advocates Northern Ireland's unification with the Republic of Ireland, but also abstains from taking their elected seats in the Westminster government, as this would entail taking a pledge of allegiance to the British monarch.

The main population centre of Inishowen, one of Ireland's largest peninsulae, is Buncrana.

* Irish Cement, Ireland's largest cement works at Platin.

It is based on the principle of power-sharing under the D ' Hondt method to ensure that Northern Ireland's largest political communities, the unionist and nationalist communities both participate in governing the region.

To the south of the town lies Newtownards Airport, home of the Ulster Flying Club — Northern Ireland's largest, non-commercial training and flying organisation.

The town is home to one of Ireland's largest golf courses.

It is Ireland's oldest extant airline, and its second largest, after low-cost rival Ryanair.

She opened the Bloom Festival, Ireland's largest gardening show, on 3 June 2010, acknowledging an improved interest in gardening in Ireland, particularly among younger people.

Sligo is the 22nd largest of Ireland's 32 counties in area and 26th largest in terms of population.

& R. Odlum, Cleeve's, R & H Hall, Dockrell's, Arnott's, Goulding Chemicals, the Irish Times, the Irish Railways, and the Guinness brewery ( Ireland's largest employer ).

It enjoyed an impressive début at the 1987 general election, winning 14 seats in Dáil Éireann and capturing almost 12 percent of the popular vote to temporarily surpass the Labour Party as Ireland's third largest political party.

Up to 1989, Mitchelstown was the headquarters for Mitchelstown Co-Operative Agricultural Society Ltd, which for over fifty years had been Ireland's largest co-operative.

As a result, several of Ireland's largest industrial pig farms are based in the Mitchelstown area to this day.

* Blennerville Windmill: located about 2 km outside the town, Ireland's largest functioning windmill.

It was produced at Ireland's largest explosives factory in Enfield, County Meath.

Dublin, Ireland's Women's Mini-Marathon is said to be the largest all-female event of its kind in the world.

The University Arena, located on campus, is Ireland's largest indoor sports complex.

Dublin Airport is the headquarters of Ireland's flag carrier ( Aer Lingus ), Europe's largest low-cost carrier ( Ryanair ) and Ireland's regional airline ( Aer Arann ).

The Cineworld ( UGC ) cinema on Parnell Street is the largest cinema in Ireland with seventeen screens, the other notable north inner city cinema, the Savoy, is located on O ' Connell Street and is one of Ireland's oldest cinemas.

It opened in January 2005 and has Ireland's largest elite sports performance gym.

* Mayo has Ireland's highest cliffs ( second highest in Europe ) at Croaghaun, Achill island while the Benwee Head cliffs in Kilcommon Erris drop almost perpendicularly into the Atlantic Ocean.

The authority of the Lordship of Ireland's government was seldom extended throughout the island of Ireland at any time during its existence but was restricted to the Pale around Dublin, and some provincial towns, including Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford and their hinterlands.

Geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century made a map of Hibernia full of data on rivers, mountains and people demonstrating a knowledge of the island that could have been originated even from the presence in Hibernia of Roman explorers / traders living in small trading places of the Ireland's south and eastern coast.

Unionists also feared economic problems, namely that the predominantly agricultural Ireland would impose tariffs on British goods, leading to restrictions on the importation of industrial produce ; the main location of Ireland's industrial development was Ulster, the north-east of the island, the only part of Ireland dominated by unionists.

Waterways Ireland, a cross-border organisation, established under the Belfast Agreement 1999, is responsible for navigation on the Erne System, as well the island of Ireland's other navigable waterways.

This peaceful island with only twelve or so permanent wintertime residents is connected to the mainland by Ireland's only cable car, and the only cable car which goes over sea water in Europe spanning the sound that is one of its main attractions.

The village area, dating from at least the 17th century, held one of the earliest settlements known in the southern part of the island, and one of medieval Ireland's more important monastic centres.

The City of Dublin can trace its origin back more than 1, 000 years, and for much of this time it has been Ireland's principal city and the cultural, educational and industrial centre of the island.

The island of Ireland's Eye, part of the Special Area of Conservation, lies about a kilometre north of Howth harbour, with Lambay Island some 5 km further to the north.

Among the mammals of the island are Grey Seals ( Ireland's only east coast colony ) and introduced fallow deer ( a herd of about 200 ) and wallabies ( whose ancestors were exiled to the island in the 1980s when Dublin Zoo became overcrowded ).

Ireland's Eye () is a small uninhabited island off the coast of County Dublin, Ireland, situated directly north of Howth Harbour.

Ireland's Eye comprises the main island, a range of rocks and an islet called Thulla.

The Irish kings of Tara were often recognised as supreme kings of the island from the time of Mael Seachnaill I ( 9th Century ), but the usual reality is that they were kings with opposition, ruling maybe two or three of Ireland's five provinces.

This island is home to Ireland's only Wildlife Park, and also the restored Fota House and Arboretum.

Westport House is situated in an impressive parkland setting with a lake, terraces, gardens and magnificent views overlooking Clew Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, Achill, Clare Island and Ireland's Holy Mountain, Croagh Patrick.

He made several trips to Ireland's western coast and rented Corrymore House near Dooagh, a small village on Achill Island, in 1913.

Archbishop Healy eulogises him thus: " A man more holy, more chaste, more self-denying, a man with loftier aims and purer heart than Columbanus was never born in the Island of Saints " ( Ireland's Ancient Schools, 378 ).

Set on the remote fictional Craggy Island off Ireland's west coast, the show starred Dermot Morgan as the eponymous Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Father Dougal McGuire ( Ardal O ' Hanlon ) and Father Jack Hackett ( Frank Kelly ).

Fota Island is host to Ireland's only wildlife park — as well as the historical Fota House with ornamental gardens and an 18-hole golf course owned by the " Fota Island Golf Club and Resort ".

Valentia Island (), also spelled Valencia Island, is one of Ireland's westernmost points, lying off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of County Kerry, Ireland.

Including Random Island, Ireland's Eye, Merasheen Island, Red Island, Long Island, Green Island, Brunette Island, Penguin Islands, Ramea Islands and all other islands adjacent to the shoreline of the above-described area.

Howth Harbour and the islands of Ireland's Eye ( nearest ) and Lambay Island in the distance

In July 2007 it was announced that the Ireland Island would feature a recreation of Northern Ireland's Giants Causeway.

The Vikings substituted the word Island with Ey, their Norse equivalent, and so it became known as Erin's Ey and ultimately Ireland's Eye.

The location where Gorgo first appears, the fictional Nara Island, is likely a tribute to the Godzilla series ; Nara being a historical period of Japan: alternatively, it may be an anagram for the Aran Islands, off Ireland's west coast.