"Since tonight the wind is high The sea's white mane a fury I need not fear the hordes of hell Coursing the English Channel"

DUBLIN -- The Viking terror may have receded from these shores since those anonymous lines were inked out in Irish 10 centuries ago, but according to some, a fearsome danger threatens Dublin still.

That menace today is the city's expanding tourist trade -- particularly in Dublin's top tourist area, Temple Bar, where that scourge of pubs and night-spots, the stag night (or bachelor party as it is known to some) has been banned.