Image: DCC Image: DCC THE SCHEME TO build the white-water rafting facility in Dublin may now face delays as the council won’t be putting its construction out to tender until next year, rather than the last months of 2020 as hoped.
The council last year faced much criticism over the €22.8 million bill for the project, coming in the midst of a housing and homelessness crisis. Related Reads 16.07.20 Government rejected council's request for €6.6m to fund white-water rafting project in Dublin City 09.07.20 Plans for €15 million floating pool on River Liffey near white-water rafting facility in Dublin city centre 13.12.19 Councillors to consider rescinding their support for white water rafting facility in Dublin
Is that a joke? There is a homeless crisis. And they want to waste money on a white water rafting facility. GET A FUCKING GRIP
Total necessity why would they build houses👹
Cycle lanes and white water rafting, welcome to the sad world of The Greens and Owen Keegan
This should be fully scraped and the money put into the health system
Can you just imagine what the ‘locals’ will be using the water for 🤢
Lads your thinking of this all wrong. Think of it. Night on the sauce - dirty kebab/burger whatever your having and then it happens. The urge. The rolling waves, the boiling froth of a stomach full of pints. Finally somewhere for a proper shite and a wash after.
Least of Dublin worries at the moment.. Money should be used for other necessities. 😡
As so many of us never had access to swimming pools growing up in Dublin, why aren’t swimming pools not been developed so we can actual learn how to swim first?
Free dose of Weils disease as Exposure through water contaminated by urine from infected animals is the most common route of infection. Dublin is infested with rats.!
Propose putting the property tax up to pay for it and gauge by the support it receives.....or just accept it's a silly waste of money and energy.
Waste of money!!!
Will participants have to wear masks...? 😂
To quote an old Tweet from rid9way
How many ICU beds could we have instead please ?
What a waste of money!
Yeah because this is exactly what Dublin needs right now, a white water rafting facility. Jesus wept!
That’s the council for you, their building an estate across the wall from mine but now are going to conjoin the 2 estates, and make 1 big one out of it, don’t they need planning to open an entrance gate?
Wait? This isn't Waterford Whispers?
Absolute squandering of money, give the finances to struggling businesses and keep them afloat.....no pun intended 😲
People need to be locked up if this goes ahead, people dying on the streets and some suits want to go play in water. So Irish.
What a monumental waste of money. Scandalous
What will the facility be called, 'Keegan's Folly' ?
Any semblance of sanity seems to have disappeared!!!
Stop
The ongoing costs in electricity alone will be huge. That water won't pump itself.
There will be housing in the white water rafting facility, right?
Great news something to look forward to when the madness of covid19 is over
People are dying in tents on the street DubCityCouncil is this a fucking joke
Christ! First world problems eh?
This is insane
How can the council afford to turn Strand Road into a cycle way and build this piece of vital infrastructure? forthefew
This is a great idea,something fun for people to do,it would pay for itself in no time,or let's just keep throwing money at the health service, our budget is the same as Holland with 4 times the population, im sick of ...let's fund the health service properly...I want fun stuf
RossOCK was this your idea?
Ah, God be with the days when we had the floozie in the jacuzzi.
That nutter Owen Keegan is a big fan of kayaking. Obviously it would be wrong to suggest that this is a relevant factor......
It would be better spent put towards the homelessness crisis in the country! Absolutely beyond a joke.
Live footage from Council meeting
OMG WHY
I’ve heard some nonsense in my time but this takes the biscuit. Talk about a brain dead idea.
No. DubCityCouncil no no no no. No.
Dublin City Council has said it remains hopeful it will secure all the funding needed for the White Elephant facility .. there, fixed it
People are dying on the streets and DubCityCouncil priority is €22m on a vanity project.
Another fine example of how disconnected the Dublin elites are from regular people..
DubCityCouncil Do you think this is a good idea to plough on with this in the midst of a pandemic?
How can they be looking for funding for this which is unnecessary when everyday people in all walks of life are found dead whether they are in their homes or on the street. Money should be put forward for mental health, healthcare and homelessness.
Who will be the first to say 'White water' is racist?
What the fuck
Somebody shout 'STOP'
Ludicrous.
Who’ll fish out the homeless before rafting begins every morning?
Dear Lord
Ah. So they still want their water-surf playground in the middle of the IFSC to go ahead while the economy is going t**s up. Lovely.
Given the recent news of homeless deaths and murder suicides. This plan should be scrapped and the funds invested in mental health services. DubCityCouncil
Thank god for that. I lost sleep last night thinking because of this coronavirus pandemic situation, the funding for white-water rafting might fall through.
I can't stress how unnecessary and pointless this is. I'm genuinely curious as to who in DCC thought this was a legitimately good idea?!😂
Somehow comforting to be reminded that politicians all over the world are grotesque.
A woman died in a tent this week.
Kim, there are people dying.
I’ve heard it all . Is it April fools day ?
This cannot be still going ahead? Surely? Have the people charged with running the country lost their collective minds?
🤔🙄
This is our “Bridge To Scotland” isn’t it 🤔
I think Dublin City Council should just go for broke and knock the Famine Memorial across the road and turn it into a small car park for this place. Then use the grand opening to hold the RIC commemoration they had to cancel last year!
Absolutely crazy. Once again a project that ignores the plight of people in Dublin. What is wrong with these decision makers? What world do they live in?
This is GUBU manifest. Irish Taxpayers money being misallocated during a crisis to pay for what is a modern day folly of just 1 man who happens to be in a position of influence on Dublin City Council & is probably the only person who has white water rafting as a hobby in Dublin.
Insane.. absolutely insane.....
Deadly
You're surely engaging in click bait with these articles, guys!
Great place for the unemployed masses to spend the day.
If it was the 1st April I’d be laughing! But it’s not, it’s mid one of the biggest crises our country has faced and this guys want to throw money into a glorified water park 🤯🤯🤯🤯
😲😳😳😳 yep priorities in the right place
Is it possible Dublin City Council are living in a parallel universe and us poor saps get to live in Bad Dublin, while they live in the wonderful Good Dublin. Because that can be only reason for this ridiculously stupid idea. But then again look at the government .
Oh for the love of God!! What are you thinking DubCityCouncil ?
Excellent , another great white elephant !
MichealMartinTD LeoVaradkar EamonRyan sure we can use these funds for much better/needed important life saving matters than a few sunny fun days on the water... we have ample rivers lakes beaches to enjoy the great Irish weather...
Who is crying out for white water rafting in Dublin?
Is it April already?
Who in their right mind would even suggest this project when all around us there are families and individuals crying out for proper homes and shelter? Are the city managers blind as well as deaf? Shame on the government if they donot step in and put the brakes on this
Is this crap still a possibility? Ffs
They should build it on a river
I can’t believe they are still going ahead with this😡.
Some people in Dublin City Council need to be sacked badly if this tasteless muck is the best they can up with for the City! Ridiculously dumb idea and of course criminal waste of public money, time and energy.
What genius came up with this plan?
I can't wait until its built, about time the long deprived North Inner City got something nice
Just what the country needs in a time of crisis, nothing like a bit of white water canoeing to get you through a recession.
Actually it's needed more than ever now: Fill it up with an anti-viral and use it a sheep dip for the inner city residents.
Dublin City Council are a disgrace. There are people dying on our streets and kids eating meals at street kitchens and this is what they want funding for
This has to be somebody having a prank....
I had totally forgotten this was a thing. Surely in the current climate those funds could be better allocated.
Absolutely totally ridiculously stupid idea & a complete waste of money !!!
This is a vanity project that will become a white elephant and eventually close due to high running costs
Cos we really fucking need it
DubCityCouncil are you people for real? Complete waste of money! Money that's needed for social housing. 😡
How incredibly tone deaf
Really? So very many suffer from the housing shortage, and you’re going for white water rafting? When the Revolution comes ... it started with White Water Rafting.
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