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In 2023 the airport added what its management describe as "a new next-generation cabin baggage screening system," removing the need for passengers to yank out laptops, phones, and liquids from cabin bags. Over 600,000 of Knock’s 2023 passengers travelled to or from the UK, with most of the rest mostly bound for sun holiday destinations such as Alicante, Faro, Majorca, or to culture and football hubs such as Barcelona, Cologne or Milan. Over 730,000 of the passengers flew with Ryanair, the Irish airline that is Europe’s biggest carrier. ....
After a series of assaults on visitors in capital Dublin, Ireland's image as a traveller-friendly destination could be further tarnished by a weekend of street violence in two tourist-draw towns on the Atlantic coast. A local man died on September 10 after being assaulted in Westport, which has long been popular with visitors from Europe and North America for its ocean and mountain backdrop and range of pubs. The same weekend saw a car driven into a crowd of people outside a shopping centre in Galway, a nearby city known for its traditional music scene leaving several people injured,. A brawl in the square where the car attack was carried out left several others hurt. Footage of the fighting has been doing the rounds on social media since the weekend, along with recordings of another dust-up elsewhere in the city. ....
The Irish government is to spend €10 million on policing in Dublin after being accused of sitting on its hands in the wake of several muggings, beatings and stabbings, some of them targetting visitors. "While policing alone cannot solve many of the factors which contribute to criminality or people feeling unsafe, high visibility policing is crucial to providing reassurance for all who live in, work in or visit our capital city," said under-fire Justice Minister Helen McEntee on August 22. The spending will cover deployments of armed police, police dogs, checkpoints and will see police working overtime. McEntee's statement and the police's outlining of how the funding is to be spent came ahead of a court appearance by two teenagers arrested after a recent attack on British tourists in the tourist-trap Temple Bar district of the capital. ....
DUBLIN Ireland's gross domestic product grew by 7.8 per cent in the first quarter of the year due to surging exports by multinational corporations, according to official estimates. However, gross national product, a measurement which cuts out multinationals, fell by 1 per cent quarter-on-quarter, the government's Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on Friday. According to the CSO's Jennifer Banim, "the tightening of Covid-19 related restrictions led to lower levels of economic activity for many of the sectors focused on the domestic market." Ireland's government lifted a third pandemic lockdown in May after almost five months of restrictions that were ranked among Europe's harshest by the University of Oxford. ....
DUBLIN Ireland's recent third pandemic lockdown led to an increase in "recreational walking," according to Sport Ireland, a government body, with the usual mist-laced winter gales blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean proving no deterrent to a population otherwise told to stay at home for months on end. The report said "overall levels of physical activity have increased on 2019 figures," with the percentage of Irish adults "walking for recreation" climbing from 65 per cent before the pandemic to 76 per cent during the first quarter of 2021, slightly below the high reported during Ireland's first lockdown last year. "Running and cycling experienced similar fluxes," according to Sport Ireland, with the early 2021 step-up in numbers coming "despite a decrease in organised sport participation." The lockdowns required people to mostly remain within five kilometres of home, another limit that seemingly did not deter walkers. ....