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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New Energy Future for Europe

Friday the 31st of July 2009

Desertec, Industrial Initiative in Munich a combination of various organisations have come together to deliver the world’s most ambitious solar energy project. The aim of the €400 billion project is to deliver carbon free energy to supply 20% of Europe’s energy needs by 2050.

The project will use solar energy from the deserts in North Africa to supply the European energy super highway for low-loss transmission of power over thousands of kilometres.

The Russian company Nitol Solar (a billion dollar company) established in 1998 is now the largest producer in Russia of polysilicon, which is the basic raw material to make solar panels (that turn sun into electricity).

Meanwhile Ireland has the highest electricity prices in the EU. These high costs are damaging Foreign Direct Investment and prodding the closure of existing FDI companies.

Government in Ireland needs to stop talking about the Green Economy and put in place governance regulations and law that allows private sector capital and entrepreneurs to enter the market for green electricity.