'Irish Las Vegas' planned

we'll just find some way to fcuk it up.

To be fair we don't always fcuk it up, we usually just do siht half-assed versions of it... Like you'll have to pay into the one casino and you won't be allowed bring your drink in from the attached bar (which itself will have only one person serving) or something. You'll have to book the different games in advance or have to wait in a queue to play the slot machines or something, and everything will be way overpriced

Did they steal this idea from a Simpsons episode?

What's next? A monorail? well it worked for North Haverbrook...

itll never happen.remember "vega-city" in north dublin, meant to be theme parks and that.not to mention the bertie-bowl. we cant even build buildings over 20 stories in dublin these days so this doesnt have a chance.

me-skywalker wrote: »

everybody laughed when the mormons founded vegas... now look at it!!

without 2 key things vegas would be nothing more than a one-horse town like hundreds of other places in nevada currently

the building of the hoover dam brought thousands upon thousands of people into vegas and a crazy idea by bugsy siegel to build a multi million dollar hotel on the now strip saw the rest of the mob follow in the late 40s

It baffles me how this type of operation is not up and running here already. I can understnad the reluctance to encourage gambling, however, the advent of internet based gambling and the essential impossibility of preventing it means that the availability of gambling is at saturation point with or without mega-casinos.

With the only good reason for avoiding mega-casinos dead in the water, we should seek to embrace the economic and other benefits of these casinos. Given that the UK hasnt really gotten off the ground with their plans, we could steal a significant march on them by legalising it first. I also presume that our corporate tax rate would attract a lot of the big players.

Location wise, I would have thought that somehere near a major airport would be key and the Shannon area (which is sufffering obvioulsy) sounds like a perfect idea to get the yanks touring the west coast and its also very commutable for Dublin and UK based weekend-tripppers.

Of course, all that would require a decision by a government that would take some local and general criticism for a number of reasons (proliferation of gambling, crime etc) and ultimatley FF (and the rest of them) didnt have the balls to just do it. So all the business will go elsewhere. Ah welll......

shamblertine wrote: »

I disagree, having it in the West coast will do ok during the summer months, but it would bomb for the rest of the year. It has to be near Dublin. This is where people have the highest spending power, where the biggest concentration of the population is, and is also the closest spot for UK visitors. Most yanks coming to Ireland will come into Dublin first anyway.

Fcuk Dublin, they have plenty. Most visitors will travel around Ireland anyway. I don't see how having it outside Dublin would have such an adverse affect. A 2 and a half hour drive is nothing for most Americans

Sure Bray does me grand

Four-Too wrote: »

FCUK them! Who tha fcuk iz gonna be puntin in it?! The sheep and cows??! I won't be supporting them anyway, I don't care if it was built outside my back yard.

Is there a reason in there somewhere or do you just oppose it for the sake of it?

Futurism wrote: »

Why bother having a reason when you can just oppose it anyway? :pac:

Judging from the post, he/she is a Dubliner who thinks nothing happens outside of Dublin and thus is opposed to the idea because Dublin should have a God given right to it.