For the first quarter of 2012, Ireland sees an uptick in business

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It's not easy in Ireland, but tourists aren't avoiding it as the are some other cash-challenged European nations.

The survey was welcomed by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar in advance of his address tonight to Meitheal 2012, Ireland’s largest tourism trade fair, which opened this morning in the RDS in Dublin and will see an estimated …

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