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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Shoppers here pay 15% more than in N. Ireland

Monday the 6th of March 2006

Consumers can be forgiven for wondering why prices for groceries have not fallen since the Groceries Prices Order was abolished. After all they were bombarded by way of press releases that once the Groceries Prices Order was abolished prices here in the Republic would fall. A recent survey of prices compared grocery prices in Northern Ireland and in the Republic in TESCO stores, so a like for like comparison was available. The report revealed that prices for grocery in the Republic are 15% higher than in N. Ireland. The assertions of spokespersons that prices here are higher because of higher costs are not credible. Corporation Tax, Business Rates and fuel to name just a few are lower here than the UK. Retailers in fashion and footwear have reduced their prices here by over 30% since we joined the Euro. These retailers have the same costs here as UK retailers. The fact is that the change in the supply chain by fashion and footwear Irish retailers sourcing in Euro and avoiding sterling currency exchange costs has not been adopted by either the drinks or food sector. Of course European food retailers Aldi and Lidl have much lower prices than the UK sterling retailers.