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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Grandparents Day is Sunday 28th September in Ireland

Wednesday the 13th of August 2008

11.00 a.m. Phoenix Park
The Grandparents Day 5k Fun Run from the Papal Cross. A non competitive fun run, or walk, through one of the most scenic parts of the Phoenix Park. Have a family photograph taken, collect your Certificate of Merit, and if you wish go the Zoo for the afternoon.
 
3.00 p.m. St, Stephen's Green
The St. Stephen's Green Sunday Stroll takes place from 3.00 p.m. Join hundreds of Sunday strollers in Dublin's most famous. Pick up a Grandparents Day Park Quiz form, do a lap of the Green with the family, find the answers to the clues on the way and give your completed form to one of our volunteers. Have a family photo taken - free of charge, and enjoy your family day.  
 
If your family would like be part of either of these events  call :-
 
Dermot Kirwan
Friends of the Elderly
25 Bolton St. D1.          01 8731855  087 7771448   www.friendsoftheelderly.ie