<[email protected]> wrote:

    > Thomas wrote:
    >
    > > But bere in mind that the majority of brits are just going to Dublin
    > for a
    > > pissup at the weekend rather than spending a week touring etc.
    >
    > Certainly some truth in that.

That it's a majority? The figures of UK tourists were pretty big before
ryanair et all came on the scene and boozy weekends became popular.

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Perhaps not a majority, but at least a substantial minority. I guess it
depends how you measure it - individual tourists? Tourist nights?
Tourist spend? You'd probably get different pictures from each measure.

Following up to chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn

    >> Of course, but I find it interesting that what I saw on the
    >> ground was different.
    >Not really- you're talking about Shannon airport, which has a lot of US
    >flights. You'd expect to see americans there.

and the whole of the SW. The pass of Dunloe, or is it Dunmore?
seemed to be full of Americans in pony and trap (what's the
plural? ponies and traps?) hardly heard an english accent.
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