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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Morris Tribunal finds gross indiscipline in Garda Síochána

Friday the 18th of August 2006

The Minister for Justice, Mr. M. McDowell is to introduce a new code of discipline for the Gardai following the publication of the Morris Tribunal Report.
"The Tribunal has been staggered by the amount of indiscipline and insubordination it has found in the Garda Force. There is a small but disproportionately influential, core of mischief making members who will not tell the truth and who have no respect for their Officers" - reported Mr. Justice Frederick Morris.
There has been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in the business community at the less than satisfactory performance of some Gardai over the last few years. Business people often feel they are not getting the service they are entitled to especially in response time and proactive management of streets and low level crime of shoplifting, theft and drug dealing on streets.
The Morris Tribunal has done this country a huge service. Let us all hope that this reforming Minister for Justice introduces the necessary changes quickly and in full that will give us all a Garda Force that we can be proud of.
Accountability and obedience to authority are not issues that are appropriate and proper matters for industrial relations.