Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Rory Coveney:
In fairness, it looks worse because of what happened. We had a huge number of sales, as I said, namely, 6,700 on the big weekend that got cancelled. That was probably our last chance to kick into momentum into Christmas and we lost all momentum. Not only did we lose positive sentiment, we had active negative sentiment given people had travelled from the country and so on and we had to cancel shows at very late notice. That is when the project really took a turn and we lost a lot of demand then into the two Christmas weeks.
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