Visitors are not deterred from Ireland’s tourist spots even though the price of goods just keeps going up, according to travel journalist Eoghan Corry.
In several pubs across Dublin, the price of a pint has risen exponentially in recent years, with a pint Rockshore cider costing €10.45 in the Merchant's Arch pub in Temple Bar if you’re also ordering a meal.
Kavanagh’s Pub in Dublin 8 has even recently threatened to remove all Diageo products from its stock after the third hike on costs in a year and a half.
According to travel journalist Eoghan Corry, however, these prices are not deterring the famous residents of Temple Bar - tourists.
“It's very interesting when you look at the price per pint,” he told The Pat Kenny.
“When you look across Dublin and the very publicised rise in the price of a pint in Temple Bar – you could walk 500 metres and get a pint for €5, €5.50.
Temple Bar in Dublin. Image: Richard Green / Alamy Stock Photo“[But] the pubs that are charging [€10] are packed, so the prices running on the ground, once [tourists] land in the city aren’t really a factor in people deciding coming to Dublin or not.
“They do expect Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin to be around the same level.
“Where we sit in international tourism, the expectation isn't that you're coming here [for low prices].”
Price of food
Mr Corry said the same principle applies when it comes to the price of food, where Ireland is ranked highly for its production.
“I wouldn't really worry about trying to market low-cost foods to our tourists,” he said.
“When they’re coming to Ireland, they see cattle in the field, they sheep out in the field – they see food being produced as it should be, in an environmental and humane way.”
Tourism in Dublin
Other tourist attractions in Dublin might not be so confident as Dublin’s Leprechaun Museum was ranked among the “most boring” in the world.
Conducted by Solitaired, researchers reportedly analysed 66.7 million Google reviews across 3,200 tourist attractions around the world, focusing on keywords such as “tiresome” and “lifeless”.
The Leprechaun Museum in the city centre was ranked the 38th most boring attraction in the world, the only Irish tourist attraction to make the list.
The museum promoting Ireland’s mythological history, however, currently has 4.2 stars on Google reviews and is rated 4/5 on Tripadvisor.
In Mr Corry’s opinion, he has been to “more boring attractions”, such as the Barbed Wire Museum in Oklahoma.
