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Could Dublin ever host the Olympics?

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  • #32
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.

    That's the size of the HSE budget.

    At 6% interest rates that's €840 million a year before you start to pay back any of the money.


  • #33
    seanmacc
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.

    That's the size of the HSE budget.

    At 6% interest rates that's €840 million a year before you start to pay back any of the money.

    Speculate to accumulate.

    Ireland could put in a bid for the games if they sold it to the Olympic Committee right. Sell it as a low key enviro, sustainable games with small events sites, no large scale hotel developments ect. We're not a big country so why promise the sun moon and stars. The games need to be pegged back a bit after Beijing anyway


  • #34
    WumBuster
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.

    That's the size of the HSE budget.

    At 6% interest rates that's €840 million a year before you start to pay back any of the money.

    Ah sure Ted we're so deep in debt anyway we might as well. jesus i love drinking!


  • #35
    efb
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Only one man thinks its possible (and he's an idiot)

    But sure didnt his mam feed the entire olympic team with her left breast in 1954 in a two bed tenement in Dublin while young Gay was off selling penny apples to keep the bailiffs away... or some sh!t like that...


  • #36
    admiralofthefleet
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    brummytom wrote: »
    Dublin city's 44 sq miles big.


    That's tiny. No way.

    and dublin city council couldnt organise a piss up in a brewery.


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  • #37
    admiralofthefleet
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    seanmacc wrote: »
    Speculate to accumulate.

    Ireland could put in a bid for the games if they sold it to the Olympic Committee right. Sell it as a low key enviro, sustainable games with small events sites, no large scale hotel developments ect. We're not a big country so why promise the sun moon and stars. The games need to be pegged back a bit after Beijing anyway

    they could fill the judges with black bush. the games would then be held on the moon


  • #38
    donvito99
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    We could host the Special Olympics again...


  • #39
    Latchy
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    WumBuster wrote: »
    Just wondering. Could you ever see this happening?Or is Ireland too much of a small player politically for this ever to be realistic? I mean it is a large, modern, metropolitan city and as the Irish are famous for their warm hospitality. I think it would be deadly and the craic would be mighty.
    No . Irish hearts would all be in the right place but the reality of showcasing such a huge event would be stretching the manpower and resources beyond what's available and required to stage it


  • #40
    efb
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    donvito99 wrote: »
    We could host the Special Olympics again...

    No, we had money then, we couldnt host the homeless olympics now


  • #41
    mikemac1
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    Put in a bid with Scotland and Wales?

    I know it's awarded to a city but sharing is caring :)


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  • #42
    admiralofthefleet
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    donvito99 wrote: »
    We could host the Special Olympics again...

    we got gold in the play dough in that didnt we?


  • #43
    haro124
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    We did actually apply to host the 1936 games !


  • #44
    Paz-CCFC
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    Mushy wrote: »
    Maybe if it was decimated by a bomb

    Never mind the Olympics, that's a good idea in general.


  • #45
    WumBuster
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    efb wrote: »
    No, we had money then, we couldnt host the homeless olympics now

    Just thinking. It could be possible if we do what we always do in our hour of need- receive special funding from our brothers of the diaspora in the Americas, Australias and Britain(of course)


  • #46
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    What does it do but saddle a country with debt anyway, all for a brief fleeting moment in the world's eye. Montreal for instance only finished repaying their Olympic debt in 2006, a full thirty years after they hosted the games.

    London looks set to also struggle, remember they won their bid back in 2005 when everything seemed a lot rosier in the financial world.


  • #47
    Latchy
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.
    Cameron's hedging his bets that this spectacle will help bring much need foreign investment into UK to.


  • #48
    Motorist
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    Havin a mare buddy.


  • #49
    WumBuster
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    Well we'd definitely put on a good opening ceremony(Riverdance, Westlife, Rousing speech from Enda etc)
    But the rest would be a disaster


  • #50
    demanufactured
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    cocoshovel wrote: »
    I think Waterford should host it tbh!

    Nah your both wrong...It should be held in moate.


  • #51
    oppenheimer1
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    Ireland is simply too small to host the Olympic games as it is currently configured. In order to hold the games here, you would be essentially required to rebuild Dublin, with a number of high capacity metro lines. We would also need to build hundreds of hotels, much more than we have already (and we have too many as it stands). A new airport would also be required. We would have to increase the size of our security forces by about 4 fold.

    Then we get to the sports infrastructure. We would require a large multi sport stadium, another olympic swimming complex, velodrome, media centre and countless other arenas. These would all see no use after the games. Even Beijing has a number of abandoned venues, and the main stadium gets hardly any use. (that said thousands visit it each day) - can you imagine what it would be like here?

    I wouldn't say we couldn't have afforded it a few years ago. Indeed if we had gone and hosted them, the total cost of the games would seem cheap compared to the cost of the bank bailout.

    I don't think many countries can now afford to hold the games, but they remain a strong political statement. The games have grown so big that they have now become unsustainable in the current model. It wouldn't surprise me if the IOC is eventually forced to opt for a host nation, rather than host city

    Ireland is a country of 5 million. To put this in the perspective of the Olympic games - there are 8 million tickets available for events in London.


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  • #52
    Latchy
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    WumBuster wrote: »
    Well we'd definitely put on a good opening ceremony(Riverdance, Westlife, Rousing speech from Enda etc)
    But the rest would be a disaster
    The fact that thousands of extra police and soldiers have had to be called in to give maximum security tells it's own story .
    oppenheimer1 wrote: »

    Ireland is a country of 5 million. To put this in the perspective of the Olympic games - there are 8 million tickets available for events in London.
    Totally !


  • #53
    squod
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    oppenheimer1 wrote: »

    Ireland is a country of 5 million. To put this in the perspective of the Olympic games - there are 8 million tickets available for events in London.

    Ah now c'mon. Those are census figures. Half of eastern Europe has come and gone. I can tell you about several houses up here that had upwards of 24 Chinese people living in them.


    The problem with the olympics is it would need to he held somewhere outside Dublin. Meaning half the population of the country wouldn't go to see it.


  • #54
    WumBuster
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    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    Ireland is simply too small to host the Olympic games as it is currently configured. In order to hold the games here, you would be essentially required to rebuild Dublin, with a number of high capacity metro lines. We would also need to build hundreds of hotels, much more than we have already (and we have too many as it stands). A new airport would also be required. We would have to increase the size of our security forces by about 4 fold.

    Then we get to the sports infrastructure. We would require a large multi sport stadium, another olympic swimming complex, velodrome, media centre and countless other arenas. These would all see no use after the games. Even Beijing has a number of abandoned venues, and the main stadium gets hardly any use. (that said thousands visit it each day) - can you imagine what it would be like here?

    I wouldn't say we couldn't have afforded it a few years ago. Indeed if we had gone and hosted them, the total cost of the games would seem cheap compared to the cost of the bank bailout.

    I don't think many countries can now afford to hold the games, but they remain a strong political statement. The games have grown so big that they have now become unsustainable in the current model. It wouldn't surprise me if the IOC is eventually forced to opt for a host nation, rather than host city

    Ireland is a country of 5 million. To put this in the perspective of the Olympic games - there are 8 million tickets available for events in London.

    totally agree. but if you put the finance, logistics and politics aside, Im sure Ireland would be an awesome host for the Olympics, possibly best ever. I cant remember us hosting any other major international events besides the special olympics, eurovision and i think an underage european soccer championship some years ago. All were a resounding success


  • #55
    Mint Sauce
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Put in a bid with Scotland and Wales?

    I know it's awarded to a city but sharing is caring :)

    We couldn't even organise a football tourament between the three of us.


  • #56
    thomasj
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    WumBuster wrote: »
    Just wondering. Could you ever see this happening.



  • #57
    littlelulu
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    we would also need to build a HUGE McDonalds...... :/


  • #58
    Latchy
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    littlelulu wrote: »
    we would also need to build a HUGE McDonalds...... :/
    And huge Pen to which could be dismantled after the games


  • #59
    littlelulu
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    Latchy wrote: »
    And huge Pen to which could be dismantled after the games

    and ban everyone else from selling chips...


  • #60
    smileyj1987
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    castletownman wrote: »
    Of course it could. All the amenities are already in place in the city and the hinterland sure.

    The aquatic events could be held in Mosney.

    The Red Cow roundabout could act as the velodrome for the cycling.

    And. Am. Eh.....

    Morton stadium in santry for the athletics so we have a few places sorted out now :D:D


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  • #61
    Bodhidharma
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    goose2005 wrote: »
    inb4 some deluded culchie says Cork could host it

    Dont forget the arrogance of The Dubs might not go down too well with judges

    "Where are you's from???? . . . . Ghana????. . . .F**k off ya culchie"


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