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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CSO and Central Bank Reports Reveal a Changing Ireland

Thursday the 27th of July 2006

The recent census carried out by the CSO has revealed that the population at 4.2 million has not been as high since 1861.
Recent statistics from the Central Bank also illustrates how Ireland has changed. Private car ownership has jumped from 275 per 1,000 population in 1995 to 402 in 2005. Internet connection as a percentage of households has risen from 38.2% in 1995 to 45.1% in 2005.
Mobile phone ownership is now at 98% of the population.
General Government Debt as a percentage of GDP has fallen from 81% in 1995 to 29.4% in 2005.
Real GDP growth has fallen from 9.6% in 1995 to 4.5% in 2004 and rose to 4.7% in 2005.
Retail bank interest rates while presently low for residential mortgages could be very problematic and damaging to disposable spend if interests rates were to rise to around 6%.