Count on Stoker to resurrect tourism

HE hunted by night for fresh blood — his name alone instils fear more than 150 years later.

Now one of Ireland’s biggest fans of Dracula creator Bram Stoker believes the forgotten hero of Irish literature and his most famous character, the Transylavanian count and Prince of Darkness, could be just the men to help resurrect Ireland’s flagging tourism industry.

Dublin man Dennis McIntyre is sinking his teeth into an ambitious project to develop a museum in honour of Clontarf-born Stoker — with Dracula as its spectacular centrepiece.