Larry Donnelly

Yeah.

A listener says, I was in Rome for the last Home Rider Cup.

We attended on Wednesday through to Sunday.

It was €2,100 for two of us.

That's a reasonable holiday from Wednesday through to Sunday, €2,100.

If you're a golf fanatic, I think you might pay that.

But I wonder how much this, Larry, is down to...

What's happening in the sports business anyway, and that's what most professional sport is, is a business.

And how much of this is influenced by what goes on in the United States of America?

Because how much would you pay to go to Super Bowl or even, okay, Super Bowl may be an extreme example.

but to go to even an NFL game in the States.

How much does it cost to go to a big basketball game?

Look at what's happening, for example, for the Football World Cup, where there's extortionate prices been set in many cities, added to which extraordinary charges for even taking public transport to the grounds.

Another listener says you should discuss the cost of accommodation for the week.

Some homes in Limerick are going for over €50,000.

Is that actually happening, I wonder?

Because I know in the United States, again for the World Cup, apparently a lot of hotels are now dropping their prices.

The prices that they set...

around the times of games in the World Cup they're not been met they're having to drop the prices there was a lot of publicity about Airbnb rental prices for accommodation not just in Limerick but all the way into the Midlands down into Cork where people are thinking okay even if you're an hour or it could be two hours away from Adair it'd be worth it to take a nice house as people do when they go to the Masters in Atlanta but are they really going to be getting 50 grand a house?

I suppose they'll say it's the law of supply and demand.