Brexit disaster strikes tourist hotspots as pound plunges
UK tourists splash about £39 billion abroad each year
It’s time for prayers, Irish restaurant owner Padraic Óg Gallagher says, describing the prospect ofBrexit with one word: “disaster”.
About 40 per cent of customers at Gallagher’s Boxty House in Dublin’s tourist district, Temple Bar, come from the UK. Now, with the pound plunging, he’s worried.
“I just had the first growth in seven years and now, Oh God, do I have to go through this again?” said Gallagher, 55, who has been ...