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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They Won Our Freedom So Let's Use Our Indpendence Wisely

Wednesday the 9th of September 2009

'Ireland was independent for 50 years before we actually exercised our independence when we joined the EU in 1973', according to Ireland's Future.ie. Only economic independence delivers real political independence. Access to Europe’s markets delivered real independence for Ireland.

Ireland’s Future.ie (www.irelandsfuture.ie) is an independent civil society group dedicated to explaining what the Lisbon Treaty is all about and why it’s so important to our future.

We can look at it in another way by comparing the current financial crisis and the currency crisis of the early 1990s.Total control and authority over our affairs is little use if we have no influence and impact on the events that affect our affairs.

Ireland had total control and authority and influence over monetary policy during the currency crisis of the early 1990s but we had absolutely no influence or impact on how that currency crisis affected Ireland. We devalued when we didn’t want to and our economy was greatly damaged by extremely high interest rates in our attempt to prevent devaluation.

Let’s compare that to the current financial crisis: Ireland’s interests have been protected by our membership of the euro. Working with our EU partners the worst possible scenarios of the economic crisis have been avoided – and for Ireland that means bankruptcy.

Give me real influence and real protection for Ireland’s interests any day over impotent, marginalised control of government decisions in splendid isolation to real life events.

It’s time to get real on Lisbon 2. Our interests and our future will be enhanced by a YES to Lisbon 2 because Lisbon 2 strengthens the EU and provides Ireland with an abundance of opportunities to exploit in the future.