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Council responds to golf course losses

  • 04-05-2010 7:57pm
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    Jimdagym
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    Sorry about this link, bit of work involved.
    http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/blogsection/8/95/3/3/
    Its from the northside people (free magazine). Click on the edition "Northside People (East) - 28th April and when it opens go to page 6. Story is top left. It is a viewer so I cant copy and paste, but its a story about how Corballis and Elmgreen have lost e610,000 between them from 2007 to 2009.

    Wonder how long they can sustain this for?


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  • #2
    Mister Sifter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Mister Sifter


    Jimdagym wrote: »
    Sorry about this link, bit of work involved.
    http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/blogsection/8/95/3/3/
    Its from the northside people (free magazine). Click on the edition "Northside People (East) - 28th April and when it opens go to page 6. Story is top left. It is a viewer so I cant copy and paste, but its a story about how Corballis and Elmgreen have lost e610,000 between them from 2007 to 2009.

    Wonder how long they can sustain this for?

    Struck me as a bit of a non-story really. As the council points out, they're not losses, it's simply a council subsidy. Elmgreen and Corballis provide vital facilities to the local area. Over 1m people played Elmgreen over the ten years to 2007 and the car park is rammed full pretty much every weekend, and has been for the past three years.

    I see no reference in the article to the hundreds of football, hurling, camogie, hockey pitches that are maintained by the council. I'd assume they're not profit making for the council. And what about the 50-odd floodlit tennis courts in the region. Do they break even? Have the swings and roundabouts in the local park - which the council pays to maintain - turned a coin for the council?

    I'd love to have read more about how the renovations to Corballis (which i assume cost a pretty hefty sum of money) impacted on those 'losses'. Sadly the reporter in question hasn't bothered to try and explain that one.

    Those two courses provide such a valuable resource for the fingal community. If they weren't there, how many fewer people would play golf?


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