DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland celebrated St. Patrick's Day with packed parades through its towns and cities for the first time in three years on Thursday, celebrations its battered tourism sector hopes will begin a long road to recovery.
The national holiday traditionally kicked off the tourism season before COVID-19 cut the number of arrivals in Ireland below 5 million in both 2020 and 2021 from the record 20 million in 2019, four times the country's population.
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