Fáilte Ireland aims to draw 100,000 crowd to enjoy scaled-up New Year’s bash

Some of the fireworks at last years New Year’s festival party

Fáilte Ireland is planning a 100,000-person New Year’s festival party that would rival other large end-of-year celebrations across the world.

The state agency, in tandem with Dublin City Council, has sought to appoint a third-party to organise a large-scale New Year’s festival spread across a number of days.

According to tender documents issued by Fáilte Ireland, evaluation of previous New Year’s events showed that the audience “wanted more to be happening and [wanted] ...