{"id":730124,"date":"2026-08-07T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730124\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:06:12","slug":"all-ireland-fleadh-expected-to-exceed-projected-53m-boost-to-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730124\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Fleadh expected to exceed projected \u00a353m boost to Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staging the world’s largest celebration of Irish music and culture in Belfast this week is expected to exceed \u00a353m in terms of an economic boost to the city.<\/p>\n

The latest projection about the Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann was given by Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald as she welcomed hospitality representatives and tour operators to the city.<\/p>\n

The eight-day festival, which runs until 9 August, marks the first time the event has been held in the city<\/p>\n

More than 176,000 people were in Belfast city centre on Sunday for the opening ceremony<\/a> – an increase of 95% on the same day last year.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Archibald said the signals were “pointing in a positive direction” and the Department for the Economy (DfE) now expected the economic boost to exceed the \u00a353m figure which her department had announced earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Archibald added: “I think we have seen greater than expected numbers coming to experience the Fleadh this year, so we are anticipating that it will likely be greater than that.<\/p>\n

“We haven’t got a number on it yet, all of that will come in the evaluations post event.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staging the world’s largest celebration of Irish music and culture in Belfast this week is expected to exceed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-730124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}