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Fáilte Ireland RINGS IN THE NEW YEAR
Thousands ring in 2020 at New Year’s Festival Dublin
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lmost 100,000 people lined the streets of the capital to ring in 2020 at the biggest New Year’s Festival Dublin yet. A joint Fáilte Ireland and Dublin City Council initiative, the New Year’s Festival Dublin is expected to have generated €10 million for the economy. The city came alive with two days of New Year's festivities including countdown events at the iconic Custom House, the Liffey Lights Midnight Moment Matinee, the Countdown Concert headlined by Walking on Cars, Ash, Aimee and Lisa McHugh and the Liffey Lights Midnight Moment. On New Year’s Day, the celebrations continued with a concert in Temple Bar
with music from Kila, Wyvern Lingo, Brian Deadly and Luz. Head of Festivals at Fáilte Ireland, Ciara Sugrue, said: “We were delighted to work with Dublin City Council on the eighth annual New Year’s Festival Dublin which featured some of Ireland’s finest musical talent to ring in the New Year in style. Festivals and events like this are crucial to the tourism sector. The New Year’s Festival Dublin not only provides a boost for tourism businesses in Dublin at an offpeak time of the year, but it also gives overseas visitors to Ireland a unique opportunity to experience the very best of our culture, people and places.”
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