Lonely Planet recently took a cold, hard look at Dublin – and the international travel publisher did not like what it saw. On a recent post on its website, it warned prospective visitors that “soaring hotel costs are wreaking havoc with holidaymakers’ budgets” and highlighted rising costs in the capital. “Dublin is a notoriously expensive city and the cost-of-living crisis is continuing to fuel price hikes across everyday goods and services,” it said. The publisher was in a better place to comment than most. After all, the intellectual property assets connected with Lonely Planet’s global operations have been housed in…
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