For Northern Ireland, 'Game of Thrones' is much more than a popular TV show

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'Game of Thrones' was filmed in more than 49 locations throughout Northern Ireland. Tourism has become big business for the country, with the show helping to attract 120,000 visitors a year, including fans who are eager to meet the real dire wolves.

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.BALLYHORNAN, Northern Ireland — Will Mulhall was an 18-year-old lifeguard on the coast of Northern Ireland’s County Down when he took his life savings and bought two Northern Inuit puppies. He wanted big dogs, he said, and was drawn to the wolf-like appearance of the breed.

For locals like Mulhall, the show is much more than an epic tale of battles, ice zombies and dragons.'Game of Thrones' trailer breakdown: What HBO does — and does not — want us to know about season eight “It is kind of surreal that they were in ‘Game of Thrones’ and they are here,” said Susan Hewitt from Essex, England.

 

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yawn

Really...like what.its a TV show.

3 things Northern Ireland known for making. Delorean, Titanic and this disaster ;-)

Never watched an episode and never will.

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