Ireland. Dún Laoghaire cruise plan ‘could attract 400,000 visitors’

A planning application for a “next generation” cruise ship berth at Dún Laoghaire harbour will be filed this month in a move expected to bring about 400,000 passengers to the town each year, a four-fold increase on scheduled visitors for 2015.

Gerry Dunne, chief executive of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, said the plan would complement a similar application from Dublin Port but that the future could be one of collaboration under a “Cruise Dublin” banner.

The plans will be submitted under strategic infrastructure legislation which will see them go straight to An Bord Pleanála.

(Full story at irishtimes.com)