City council stop penguinarium

connemara man · 22-02-2019 12:28pm #1

This is awful stopping a penguinarium!!

It would have been great.

I'm also sure there's a logic but still...

https://connachttribune.ie/council-turns-down-penguinarium-plan-for-salthill-101/

ben.schlomo · 22-02-2019 12:53pm

Well it's hardly the most humane of things is it!

connemara man · 22-02-2019 1:05pm

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Well it's hardly the most humane of things is it!

It's be far more humane than the zoo. Where they aren't in a temperature controlled environment

Mrs OBumble · 22-02-2019 1:27pm

connemara man wrote: »

It's be far more humane than the zoo. Where they aren't in a temperature controlled environment

Is nature a tempetature controlled environment? Would ypu like to be forved to spend your entire life in an air-conned building?

Do you think that people living in the apartments behind the site wrould have liked the noise and the smell???

Bredabe · 22-02-2019 1:29pm

I though there were other uses for that building anyway.

connemara man · 22-02-2019 1:34pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Is nature a tempetature controlled environment? Would ypu like to be forved to spend your entire life in an air-conned building?

Do you think that people living in the apartments behind the site wrould have liked the noise and the smell???

Well the zoo in summer (where they are outside) isn't conditions for penguins I'd have thought.

But with the aquarium there it would have been a good addition.
You hope those environmental factors would have been addressed if not then they are right not to allow it

The old tourist office looks awful, this would have given a footfall boost to an area that IMO could do with more amenities.

Robbo · 22-02-2019 1:49pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Do you think that people living in the apartments behind the site wrould have liked the noise and the smell???

I'm sure the presence of aquatic birds in the area will cause many, many pearls to be clutched.

xckjoo · 22-02-2019 2:17pm

Can we all just get a penguin each to adopt and they can have play dates and stuff?

Zzippy · 22-02-2019 5:06pm

Robbo wrote: »

I'm sure the presence of aquatic birds in the area will cause many, many pearls to be clutched.

Watch the seagulls flock to the thread....

ben.schlomo · 22-02-2019 5:36pm

Zzippy wrote: »

Robbo wrote: »

I'm sure the presence of aquatic birds in the area will cause many, many pearls to be clutched.

Watch the seagulls flock to the thread....

Cantona?

Robbo · 26-03-2019 5:44pm

This bird may still fly.

Your Face · 26-03-2019 6:03pm

Penguinarium - its fun to say.

Ludikrus · 27-03-2019 3:21pm

Your Face wrote: »

Penguinarium - its fun to say.

A penguinarium is a vivarium.

zell12 · 27-03-2019 3:28pm

Kidnapping them from the south atlantic to gawk at them for private profit, so to speak

Zzippy · 28-03-2019 1:37pm

zell12 wrote: »

Kidnapping them from the south atlantic to gawk at them for private profit, so to speak

I'd imagine most captive penguins these days are bred in captivity and not kidnapped from the southern hemisphere, no matter which ocean...

deaglan1 · 13-04-2019 9:50pm

Zoos are outdated Victorian "attractions".......get rid of, along with those appalling "SeaWorld" abominations. A one minute attention span for snotty nosed kids with ice cream drooling down their mouths looking at a tiger in a crap enclosure is poor fare for an animal that should be roaming through a far east jungle. Look at the ridiculous nonsense of a troupe of wallabies on Lambay island in Dublin Bay..at least they are in an open location but how far removed is that landscape and weather compared to where they originate from? Why not make and effort and get into the fresh air with a pair of binoculars and look at indigenous wildlife. Afterwards, the tea & sandwiches will also taste far nicer.

biko · 14-04-2019 12:11pm

Let's keep this on the topic of the local penguinarium only.

City council stop penguinarium

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