Yeah it has come in completely low key alright. Would love to go to the game
If I want to see drugged up students pushing each other aggressively in the face and chest in front of a noisy, raucous crowd, I’ll wait outside Supermac’s in Eyre Square at 3am any night during NUIG Rag Week.
There was a queue for the Viking splash tour a couple of hundred people long this evening.
The yanks will spend that’s for sure. Your man in Carrolls will have a mansion paid for after this weekend.
On a side point more people flew into Dublin for the uefa cup final according to Dublin airport so it’s not that big
DAA were saying busiest day in history of Dub Airport. Either way it’s good news story. I’d say the yanks are getting some scalding off the hotels!
The Journal quoted the manager of the airport. Anyways the yanks are here and their wallets are fat. Its time to start selling some trinkets at inflated prices.
If I was a single man I’d be camped out in Temple Bar for the weekend, telling witty anecdotes to impressionable young American College Students.
Ploughing championships are going to be worth 36m euro to the New Ross region.
Fat cat farmers obviously need their grants cut… Or maybe they should pay the real price for diesel
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its not really a boost for the Irish economy
its just farmers spending their grant money in new ross rather than in their local pub
not a boost
Should bring its net worth up to about a tenner then.
Obvious punning opportunity missed here. Surely this agricultural event is ploughing 36m into the local economy.
Roughly half the amount of Frans wedding in the area
€1.5 million?
It’ll be more like €1.5 billion after this.
Was on the luas yesterday and today, I enjoyed that clip
What was it all over? Did he welch on a bet or something?
I see on the anti-rugby football thread that Leinster’s defeat yesterday has cost the Irish economy c.€20m. That would have been a major boost.
Are they any confirmed figures for the Garth Brooks concerts this summer?
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Cork are due to play Dublin in the League semi finals. Given the huge support the Cork footballers have, I imagine this will go some way to offsetting the massive massive loss brought about as a result of Leinsters defeat yesterday.
This thread deals with negatives too and we’re able to subtract. Has anybody totted up the full loss from the Garth Brooks’ concerts being cancelled? The Irish Restaurants’ Association reports that the concerts would have been worth €50m to the Irish economy. That’s surely a very conservative estimate.
They reckoned a full house at Thomond Park for a Heineken cup game was worth €10m to Limerick.
That only holds a pissy 28,000 and rugby away fans would only account for maybe 2,000 of that.
This concert was going to play to 400,000, with 70,000 of them coming from overseas. It would easily have been worth €100m.
So @dodgy-keeper was happy to see Ireland lose out on the income from the Heineken Cup Semi Finals, and now the Garth Brooks concerts, what sort of fucking weirdo is this guy?