I have seen it tonight on Jeff Randell live on sky news, that 10% of the crowd are Irish and an other 10% are of Irish decent of the crowd.... what's more they said that they said, they play an important part in starting the parties and mood.... which leads to serious spending and money spending in bars and restaurants, which is very important. They also said the recession has effected this big time...

Apperently there will be about 220 000 pints of guiness consumed