A major annual new year’s festival is being planned for the capital by Dublin City Council, Dublin Tourism and Fáilte Ireland. The council and Fáilte Ireland are putting €100,000 towards the inaugural Dublin New Year’s Festival, with a similar investment planned over the next three years. Organisers expect “significant” private investment.
Fáilte Ireland is hoping the festival will maintain the upward momentum in overseas visitors created by the State visits of Queen Elizabeth and US president Barack Obama in May. “We just feel we are missing a trick here and there is definitely a potential to drive up the number of overseas visitors.”