Ireland’s Tourism Minister has moved to quell fears over safety after a major incident in Dublin city centre.
Minister Leo Varadkar made the move after a brawl involving up to a dozen people in the Henry City area on Tuesday night.
Police had to move to break up the near riot as shoppers and tourists were put in danger.
The fight broke out in an area between the General Post Office, the GPO, and a tourist office on the busy street.
“Any violence is a matter of concern, but Dublin is an extremely safe city. The number of complaints that we get from tourists is very low,” stressed Varadkar.
“We have 6.5 million visitors coming to Ireland every year, with three-quarters visiting Dublin.
“Only three out of every 10,000 run into problems and have to contact the Irish Tourist Assistance Service.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.ciaradexy | May 25, 2012, 05:59 AM EDT
What? This event never happened! Who writes this crap? Seanmor, most countries were safer 30 or 40 years ago. Thats called life.
aloistmartin | May 24, 2012, 08:18 PM EDT
Don`t Believe a Word the Medicine Man speaks,without a Spoonful of Sugar ! If the EU Banana Nut Bread crumbles, Wee`ll be Doublin Up on the Ale and Potato`s !
Seanmor | May 24, 2012, 06:57 PM EDT
The Irish state is far less safe today than it was 30 or 40 years ago (though it was almost a crime then to indicte one's support for the victims of foreign rule in the North) While vacationing in Limeick in Sept. of 74, I pivked up 2 hitch-hiking ladies in their ealy 20s on my way to tghe West. The pair of college students from the NYC suburbs, who apparently had no Irish connections, told me that they had visited several countries in the continent but only in Ireland would they accept rides from strangers. "Because Ireland is a very safe country", they said.
jacersagain | May 24, 2012, 03:38 PM EDT
This so called brawl was such a non-event that even I, a Dubliner, never heard of it. So what’s Patrick Counihan doing, irresponsibly splashing it on the pages of IrishCentral? Wanting to scare visitors away? Geeze! Niall O'Dowd would want to rap his editors knuckles for printing this trashy story.