The Limerick Irish Rugby Experience closure

The GAA's museum is part of their headquarters and is in Dublin. It is part of an overall GAA experience tour and GAA sports are much more popular than Rugby.
And it attracted less than 160k visitors per annum at its peak, 103k for 2022 with no numbers published in more recent years.
 
And it attracted less than 160k visitors per annum at its peak, 103k for 2022 with no numbers published in more recent years.
So it might be attracting the number of visitors that the Limerick Rugby Experience forecasted it would get. I'd love to know who did that market research so that I can make sure I never hire them.
 
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From the Limerick Post:

Ahead of this Thursday’s meeting, at the Annual General Meeting of the Metropolitan District on Monday (June 23), outgoing district Cathaoirleach Cllr Kieran O’Hanlon took the opportunity to apologise to Mr McManus and his wife Noreen on behalf of councillors in the Metropolitan District.

“I’m extremely disappointed and annoyed at the way the whole thing was handled,” the Fianna Fáil man said.

“We have one of the biggest gifts coming to us from one of the greatest people Limerick ever had – JP McManus. Not only did we refuse it, but we insulted the McManus family in the process.”

It’s beginning to look like a South Park episode.
 
It would have been the gift that kept on taking!! What other services would they have had to reduce or shut down to keep it running? I'm assuming there would have been T&Cs attached to prevent them simply shutting the museum and selling the building.
 
It would have been the gift that kept on taking!!
It’s a bit like gifting someone a helicopter but nothing for its running costs then taking it back because the beneficiary couldn’t fly it.

This is the latest.

Limerick horse racing mogul and philanthropist JP McManus will address the elected representatives of Limerick City and County Council at the private meeting over the now closed €30m premier building on Limerick City’s main thoroughfare and the events which led to negotiations around the landmark building’s handover to the Council breaking down.
 
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