New project would include a 50-metre, five-lane lap pool, sauna and changing areas
A public lido and emergency services training centre is planned by Dublin City Council for George’s Dock, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish TimesA public lido and emergency services training centre costing at least €25 million is planned by Dublin City Council to replace the axed white-water rafting scheme for George’s Dock.
By December of that year, when it was approved by councillors, the cost had risen to €23 million. When the council sought expressions of interest to build the scheme in January 2021, it had hit the €25 million mark. There was. he said, “significant hostility towards the elements of the project that will boost the tourism offer in Dublin and provide a world-class sporting facility and little recognition of the potential of the proposed facility to support a wide range of community development activities”.
Independent councillor Mannix Flynn said: “I believe this is a whitewater rafting by any other name, and I take my hat off to Owen Keegan.” Fellow Independent Nial Ring said it appeared to be a “reiteration of the previous plan to a certain extent”, while Christy Burke, also Independent, said it appeared to be a “carbon copy of what came before us in relation to white-water rafting”.
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