Very good Bohs.
Whatever about it's being for members of what the late 'Masons apologist Vere Wynn Jones called "a society with secrets rather than a secret society" (
..you tell me ...I find that at least as ominous and dodgy) it surely is, after Cricket and Tennis, the third most boring game on Earth.
I don't think the taxi drivers strike, if it happens, will make a blind bit of difference to future tourism.
*Rack renting of accomodation and services (particularly around the time of sporting, cultural, holiday and festive events.)
*Blighting areas of unique physical, geographical and cultural beauty/importance with so called infrastructure.
*Our general emphasis on maximising "spend per head" be it in a cafe (concept of a re-fill is virtually unheard of here), pub, restaurant, nightclub and many other recreational pursuits.
*the only foreigners who get a truly genuine (if cynical) Céad Míle Fáilte here tend to be morbidly obese tartan trousered, tousle capped, "kiss me -I'm Irish" sweatshirt wearing, 60-something Americans who we're certain have plenty of the only type of green we care about and who we're sure are ****ing off home as soon as they've spent it.
Those are the kind of things that are going to damage Irish tourism.
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