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This report from the Belfast Telegraph
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| The €100m facility is due to be constructed in Tyrellstown, with work set to begin next year. |
"Tyrellstown" is actually spelt "Tyrrelstown", as far as I can gather. It's in west Dublin.
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| The company behind the plan says it expects more than one million visitors each year. |
What is the company? Can't find any development/developer details about this plan.
Anyone know anything about it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, I would not hold my breath with the economic climate at the moment. Many of the Irish cubs that did well on the Celtic Tiger have caught more than a cold at the moment! So a snow zone may be the right climate!! 
Dont think it will go ahead.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| David Goldsmith, Posting more Bol*&x. |
That's very sweet of you. Are you available as a shoe target?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Simply won't happen. Anyone daft enough to put money in this wouldn't have it in the first place. Ireland is rapidly facing the perfect economic storm - ski lessons/practice will the last thing on the minds of many of the newly enriched middle classes in the city.
Also planning is torturous here.
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Agree, this won't happen. Lots of civil engineering projects have been cancelled or put on long waits.
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killian, I agree that planning has become more problematic since the departure of Bbbbbbertie
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Roy Hockley, Well that might be a good thing, some very whacky planning passed over last few years in south county Dublin, totally out of keeping with what's there 
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Here's another report on the development, quoting 700 jobs, and locating the snowdome in north Dublin (rather than west Dublin):
Irish Times: €100m winter leisure park planned for Dublin
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He [Rick Larkin, Twinlite director] said the company had already raised the estimated €100 million required for the development costs and said the worsening economic outlook for the country was not a significant concern.
“International experience is that in a recessionary environment leisure spend tends to be pretty resilient. People are drawn towards escapism and similar facilities in the UK have been performing well”. |
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It is the same one David, Tyrellstown is based in West Dublin but it is on the North side of the liffey! The city/county is split by the river and is classed as North or South side irrelivant of its East or west location!
This is the 3rd one propoesed for Dublin and the other 2 where planned in the good times and fell through
As for the shoe Target as an ex special forces member that Journo wouldnt have got his second shoe off if I was in the room so feel free to take your chances 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Roy Hockley,
"Just because it is highly improbable it dddddoesnt mean that it does not exsist"
"The Lock Ness Monster Taoiseach"
"YYYYYYEEAHH"
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You know it makes sense.
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I read that story in the Metro today, it would be nice to have though
Ordhan, if I was Bush's special forces security I'd led him throw the two shoes and a few punches also!!!
Just one correction, the population of the Republic is approx 4.1 million (2006 census), I'm not sure about N. Ire but about 1.5 million I think.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ordhan, True, I believe him, sure he wouldnt tell a porkie!!!
Newsflash, a uncontaminated sow just flew past the window
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Poster: A snowHead
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Initial planning application was rejected, all snow lovers out there please go to the website and sign the petition in support of the snowdome http://www.snowtopia.info/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yip, never happen, UKs economy is crap but RoI is built on pure shoite. They need a snow dome like a hole in the head.
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A non-starter. There are many that think Snoasis (which has the go ahead) is also a non-starter.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Peter Ross, I really wouldnt hold your breath! The point of the planning application originally was to get the apartment built. I think this is the 3rd or 4th one to be proposed. We just dont have a big enough population christ Madrid can hardly support one
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At the moment it (and Snoasis) simply won't get funding, equity or debt. Currently development projects considered low risk, struggle to get funding, and that prime market will come back before people are prepared to plough their money into indor slopes, which history shows are very high risk.
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David Goldsmith, Posting more Bol*&x.
Dublin had a population of just over 1 Million people and apparently snowdomes need a minumum catchment of about 5 mill to be profitable. The population of the whole Island is just over 4.5. Both of the other 2 have gone out the window and from what I hear from the people in hte know more people are cancelling classes than taking them up
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Yeah thats why we have no less then 5 snowdomes in the Netherlands, 4 of them within an hours drive of eachother.
The only 1 away from the rest is relatively close to 2 domes in Germany.
Incidentally, the main slope on ALL of them are longer, keeping proper height, then the domes in the UK seem to be, maybe that is the problem.
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