I'm surprised that English stag and hen parties go to Dublin for their "binge drinking", given the significantly higher cost of booze there, when compared even to the UK :-)

But Dublin isn't alone in attracting them - when I was in Prague, the place was overrun with Brit stag parties at weekends. I could understand that, when the excellent beer was about 25% of the UK price (it may not be any more, since they adopted the euro) :(

As for limiting tourists, how would anyone propose to do that? But if Gordon Brown has his way, none of us will be able to afford to leave the UK ever again anyway :(