Figures released by the tourism development authority, Fáilte Ireland, reveal that 2007 was a record year for Irish tourism in terms of visitors and earnings. 7.8 million people visited Ireland last year, a 5% increase on 2006.
The country’s main cities are still benefiting most from tourism, with significantly less people visiting the regions.
Figures released by the tourism development authority, Fáilte Ireland, reveal that 2007 was a record year for Irish tourism in terms of visitors and earnings. 7.8 million people visited Ireland last year, a 5% increase on 2006.
The country’s main cities are still benefiting most from tourism, with significantly less people visiting the regions.
Shamrock table made by Cork Cabinet maker John Fletcher in 1852
Show stoppers in Sheppard’s two-day sale this week start with Graham Knuttel’s homage to the master, a magnificent papier-mâché and leather creation entitled James Joyce Seated on a Chair, once in the collection of the late Gillian Bowler, founding chairwoman of Imma, 156x60x60cm (€14,000-€18,000).
A second is a unique bronze by John Behan, Horse and Rider, executed in 1968. Accompanying the lot is a.
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Commercial Radio was the ‘gold rush’ of the late 1980s, and everyone and anyone wanted a piece of the action. There were rock stars, impresarios, lawyers, sportsmen, public relations gurus, stockbrokers and socialites, all prospecting for a licence to print money.
These licences, awarded by the Independent Radio & Television Commission (IRTC), were cheap and they held the promise of easy money for the influential, the fortune and the favoured. The reality turned out to be a little different. The road to radio riches was eventually littered with casualties, but only after the initial euphoria had worn off.
The way it worked was that the ‘movers and shakers’ formed themselves into competing groups, appeared before hearings in the National Concert Hall in Dublin and eventually the licences were doled out. If you weren’t involved you weren’t really a player in the Dublin financial/entertainment scene of the time.