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Thu 04 Apr 2007Rise in league attendances is good news for FAIAttendances at League of Ireland games have increased by more than a third during the opening six weeks of the new season, FAI officials revealed yesterday. The increase of 37.16 per cent equates to an average of fractionally more than 400 additional spectators at every game played in the two divisions so far.In terms of total numbers, 97,656 people have attended the 66 games played so far compared with the 65,828 who watched the first 61 games of the last campaign.