Visitor numbers were estimated to have topped one million by Friday evening ahead of final weekend of festivities.

LAURYN Coogan, 17, an Irish dancer, from Arles, Co Laois, placed within the top five constants at this year’s CRLG Irish Dancing Leinster championships on 7 November.

In the face of the mounting losses, the CLRG wrote to members last year to advise that it was abandoning its own investigation into the alleged cheating in Irish dancing.

Accounts recently filed to the Companies Office for An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) show that its finances were sent reeling further by the alleged ‘feis-fixing’ scandal in 2023.