Has anybody got tourist visitor numbers to Dublin over the last few years?
Ryanair opened the city to a great many people who would not have thought of visiting it before, including myself. Dublin is a great city, with friendly people and fantastic sights, but very expensive. It's certainly the only place I've bought 'duty free' wine in Britain to take abroad. And this was before the £ collapsed against the €. Ryanair's cheap fares mitigated the other expenses a little.
I suspect a lot of tourists have adopted a 'been there, done that, drunk the Guinness" attitude and sought cheaper destinations since. Aer Lingus is struggling to fill a small plane from Donny, when certainly in the early Ryanair years it was almost full.
I might be wrong, but if anyone's got the tourist figures...
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