Drop in number of visitors by air
Drop in number of visitors by air
Airlines carried 75,000 fewer people to the island of Ireland every week last summer, it has been disclosed. The economic slowdown was blamed for the falling passenger numbers north and south compared with summer 2008, the chief executive of Tourism Ireland added.
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Christmas around the world
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Iraqi Christians celebrated a somber Christmas in a Baghdad cathedral stained with dried blood, while Pope Benedict XVI exhorted Chinese Catholics to stay loyal despite restrictions on them in a holiday address laced with worry for the world’s Christian minorities.
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