Conference and Meeting venues in Newry

Once a small medieval town, Newry is now a modern, vibrant city destination for conferences, meetings and events.


The Newry and Mourne area boasts dramatic landscapes, beautiful coastline and undulating countryside making this an exceptional location for land and water-base team building events and corporate activities. Rich in heritage, there are magnificent historic venues alongside modern conference centres, all fully equipped to provide first class conference and banqueting facilities for discerning meeting planners. An excellent alternative meeting destination with excellent transport links to nearby Belfast.

Newry is easy to reach via the M1/A1 route from Dublin to Belfast. Conference delegates will find Belfast easily accessible via ferry from both England and Scotland or via flights into Belfast International or George Best Belfast City airports from almost 50 global destinations.

County Down is a region perfect for team building events and corporate activities with a diverse choice of locations available. For example, Clearsky Adventure Centre offers an inspirational conferencing venue with meeting space for up to 180 delegates as well as a host of team building activities, whereas Formula Karting offers a host of corporate events and racing options for daring drivers. Sporting venue Downpatrick Racecourse provides a new hospitality building which caters for conferences, meetings, corporate events and weddings with capacity for up to 450 delegates, set in the backdrop of the glorious Mourne Mountains. Ballybot House is Northern Ireland’s first purpose-built multi-purpose Community Resource Centre providing a conference room able to accommodate up to 100 delegates alongside 4 meeting and training rooms for smaller delegate groups, whilst Ti Chulainn Cultural Activity Centre offers dedicated training spaces as well as a theatre for large conferences of up to 250 delegates. The Newry and Mourne Co-operative and Entreprise Agency is a business-focussed environment perfect for conferences, training events and meeting with capacity for up to 100 delegates, whereas academic venue Southern Regional College Newry Campus provides meeting and training rooms at their Business Incubation Centre, Greenshoots. Newry Town Hall  and the Sean Hollywood Arts Centre are cultural venues, the former comprising a 500 seat theatre perfect for large conferences and corporate events whilst the latter offers exhibition space, meeting rooms and a 110 seat theatre. An impressive historic venue, the Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre is set within a 320 acre estate and offers several conference spaces alongside vast experience in hosting conferences, corporate retreats and events, whilst Narrow Water Events offer the majestic Narrow Water Castle as a striking setting for meetings, corporate events and weddings. Newry hotels include The Mill at Ballydugan and the Canal Court Hotel, in the heart of the city with several conference and banqueting suites equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for up to 500 delegates.