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  Trinity College Dublin is set to spend €150,000 on the development of a new app for self-guided tours by tourists of the historic city centre campus. About one million people visited the campus each year before the Covid shutdown, to view the Book of Kells exhibition, generating €12.7 million in revenues. Of those, 87 per cent were overseas visitors. During the pandemic those revenues slumped by €9.8 million to €2.9 million in the 12 months to the end of September last. However, looking beyond Covid-19 and the return of overseas visitors, the college – as part of ...