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A massive super-casino.
Pie in the Sky or the sort of large ambitious project the country should be taking on?

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Complete and utter pie in the sky. A 500 room 5 star hotel in Two Mile Borris??? Most of the big money gamblers that this place will try attract will have no interest. A night out in Thurles against a night out in Monte Carlo. Hard choice
 
It sounds great though.

I might try Dr Quirkeys Good Time Emporium on Rue O'Connell to see what type of experience might await me at this proposed 'Monte Carlo in the bog' development.
 
Nice idea, when you've a lot of desperate people in a country, nothing gives hope like a Casino. Given evidence from Vegas over recent years, do not be surprised if there's a similar spike in suicides as people gamble everything and lose.
 
I gather they've spent a lot of money already, so you'd say if it was a non-runner that would have dawned on someone before now.
 
Betsy Og said:
I gather they've spent a lot of money already, so you'd say if it was a non-runner that would have dawned on someone before now.
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That is the same argument that was used by people a few years ago about Sean Dunnes plans for 500 apartments costing 500K each on the site of Jurys. "If Sean Dunne is willing to put his money in it, it must be a good idea".

Did that prove to be the case ?

Running our country based on what property developers want has been a little discredited as an idea in the last while.
 
If it had been announced on April 1st, I know what I'd be thinking. It wasn't, but I'm still thinking what I'd be thinking!
 
enoxy said:
It sounds great though.

I might try Dr Quirkeys Good Time Emporium on Rue O'Connell to see what type of experience might await me at this proposed 'Monte Carlo in the bog' development.
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Brilliant!:D So, it's game on in Tipp. I heard some bloke on Morning Ireland say they could only make money if they put in slots. Hardly high-class stuff is it? And as for stepping out of a private jet into a force 9 gale in the Wild West when you could be sunnin yer ass in Monte Carlo, dream on!
 
horusd said:
Brilliant!:D So, it's game on in Tipp. I heard some bloke on Morning Ireland say they could only make money if they put in slots. Hardly high-class stuff is it?
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Nope. High class it ain't. But it is where the money is, whether you are running a casino in the boglands of Tipp or the Nevada desert itself. The glamour and excitement of high stakes poker games and the roulette wheel may be what winds up in Hollywood TV shows and James Bond movies, but the slot machines form the back bone of a casinos earnings. Go to one in Las Vegas, and well over half the floor is given over to them. That being said, I do think that this is a monumentally stupid idea, that screams of gombeen brown envelope shenanigans. No wonder Michael Lowery is involved !
 
huskerdu said:
Running our country based on what property developers want has been a little discredited as an idea in the last while.
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Fair enough but we're in post-hubris mode (even negative hubris - if thats not a contradiciton in terms) so I would have thought that the "fanstasy" had gone out of most plams.
 
Casinos are illegal in Ireland, so there is no chance of it ever being built.
 
Lowry secured an update in legislation. While Healy Rae sold his vote for a hospital in Kenmare and a bypass, Lowry sold his vote to get the Attorney General to work on this.

As I remember, happy to be corrected
 
Personally, I dont think it will be built and I dont think the law will be changed. The Government does not need Lowery's vote. Could this proposal be a trojan horse? Use the 'jobs' and 'consturction industry' arguments re: the construction of this casino as a justification to get Ireland's gaming laws changed. End result is that every high street in the country has a tacky slot machine/gambling/poker outlet and this pie in the sky project never gets built.
 
On one of the recent "deal of the day" type websites they were offering cut price deals to tempt people to the Curragh race track.
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If the Curragh is struggling to get people to attend what hope has The Casino in the Bog?
 
csirl said:
Personally, I dont think it will be built and I dont think the law will be changed. The Government does not need Lowery's vote. Could this proposal be a trojan horse? Use the 'jobs' and 'consturction industry' arguments re: the construction of this casino as a justification to get Ireland's gaming laws changed. End result is that every high street in the country has a tacky slot machine/gambling/poker outlet and this pie in the sky project never gets built.
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v interesting point, one hopes the legislators will not just give carte blanche to gambling.

Are already a fair few dingy gambling places, operating on the margins of the law I understand (RTE programme from early in the year)
 
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