LATEST DUBLIN CITY NEWS

• “Proposed changes to retail guidelines will cost jobs, compromise main streets and cause more dereliction - An Taisce”

  03-01-2012

  Jobs will be lost and main streets will suffer if Forfas gets its way on Retail Planning  according to a recent An Taisce  Press Release

• Rejuvenating Dublin's Tourism Product

  23-12-2011

  Dublin City Business Association commissioned Jerome Casey and Felim O’Rourke to undertake a study of tourism in Dublin and to make least-cost recommendations for its rejuvenation. The World Tourism Organisation concluded (in relation to Ireland) that "there appears to be very little correlation between marketing spending by National Tourism Organisations and international arrivals". 
  

  Within Ireland, there is a mismatch between the Irish tourism market and the public resources devoted to it. 

  33 existing tourist attractions in Dublin were reviewed, and low-cost initiatives suggested for their improvement.

  From 2000 – 2010 Ireland’s share of world tourism visitors has fallen sharply. In 2004, Ireland changed from being a destination country for incoming tourists to an origin country for Irish, outgoing tourists.

  Dublin must move from passive approval of tourist activities to an active development of tourism as a priority industry in regenerating the city’s economy. 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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74% believe Government failing to tackle alcohol abuse

Friday the 3rd of February 2006

Alcohol Action Ireland have commissioned an opinion poll carried and by Millward Brown IMS. This poll reveals that nearly three quarters of those polled believe the Government is failing to tackle alcohol abuse.

Dr. Joe Barry of Alcohol Abuse Ireland is reported as saying that in Ireland there are over 150,000 regular underage drinkers and that the French have severely restricted alcohol advertising. DCBA has for some years now consistently expressed concern at the large numbers of youths drunk in public places and the failure of those in charge to prosecute those in the drinks sector who are selling this legal drug to underage or drunk persons.

The failure of the Department of Health to do anything meaningful to tackle this issue is a disgrace and inexplicable. At weekends over 40% of those in accident and emergency are drunk, genuine patients are on trolleys and staff are sometimes assaulted. Yet the department of Health is silent on this.

DCBA has asked for alcohol advertising in Ireland to be banned, it is bizarre that the Minister for Health has failed to do so and produced a system in reality decided on by the alcohol drinks sector. The link between alcoholic drink advertising, sport events and festival events is an essential element in alcohol marketing strategy to glamorise alcohol and to increase sales. The public opinion poll illustrates the growing gap between civic society, the Department of Health and the alcoholic drinks sector.