What's Happening in Dublin For New Year's Eve 2008?

Pubs and clubsMorrison Hotel, in Dublin city centre, is advertising
With Dublin pubs and clubs bracing themselves foran exquisite dinner menu and the option of
one of the busiest nights of the year there'll bebooking a 2 night b&b package over the
no shortage of Dublin nightspots to ring in theNew Year period.
New Year. Most will have live music of some sortRTE Concert Orchestra...
and Temple Bar, Dublin's nocturnal hotspot, willThe RTE Concert Orchestra will perform at the
certainly be buzzing.National Concert Hall on New Year's Eve. The
Dinner, dancing the night away and hotel stays...programme will feature classical and Viennese
The New Year's Eve party at The Clarence Hotelcompositions. To add to the atmosphere there will
includes champagne reception, dinner, music and abe pre-performance music by the Café
late bar.Orchestra in the National Concert Hall foyer.
The Merry Ploughboy Irish Music Pub inChrist Church Bells ringing in the New Year...
Rathfarnham will host a banquet, entertainmentThis event is free and starts at 10.30pm, ringing
whilst you dine and a lively programme of musicout the old year and concludes at midnight with
from 10pm to 12.30am. To add to the merrimentringing in the New Year.
a group of Irish dancers will be stepping it outIt's advisable to make your way here early as
during the interval!the event is usually packed. Wear warm clothing,
The Regency Hotel in Swords is offering a 3-nightas there is a strong likelihood that you will be
package from the 29th of December to the 2ndstanding outside.
of January with a gala dinner on New Year's Eve.What to listen for? Tradition dictates a peal of 16
New Year's Eve at Halo Restaurant in Therings at midnight, but sometimes this can be 19!