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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Crime and Victimisation Surveys

Wednesday the 26th of March 2008

The idea of conducting regular large scale Crime and Victimisation (C+V) surveys is not a new one; it is common practice in most countries. International organisations are becoming more active in the area of crime measurement. Both the EU and the UN have begun compiling such surveys which should eventually result in some sort of uniformity in the way that the surveys are presented.

A Crime Victimisation Module has been included in the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) on three instances in the last quarters of 1998, 2003 and 2006 in Ireland. It is intended to introduce a separate and dedicated C+V survey in 2008 that will then be conducted at two year intervals. This dedicated C+V survey will be more comprehensive and thorough then the QNHS module and will subsequently achieve a greater unity with surveys conducted elsewhere in the EU.

Recently, the results of the EU International Crime Survey (EU ICS) were published. The EU ICS is part of a larger International Crime and Victimisation Survey which includes many countries throughout the world. The methodology for EU ICS is kept as similar as possible throughout the different countries in order to make compilation of results as successful and easy as possible.

Comparison of CSO Survey and EU ICS results

                                                                   CSO 2003          EU ICS 2004          CSO 2006
Theft with violence                                      1.4%                        2.2%                   1.2%

Theft without violence                                 3.1%                        7.3%                   2.5%

Physical assault                                           1.2%                        4.9%                   1.1%

Theft from car                                               3.5%                       5.2%                   3.4%

Bicycle theft                                                   3.6%                       2.5%                   3.5%

Reporting burglary                                         69%                        85%                    70%

Feeling unsafe or very                                   25%                        27%                    26%
unsafe in local area after dark

With burglar alarm                                         31%                        30%                    34%