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    • March 6, 2003 at 1:25 pm #706069
      PaulC
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      Has anyone any pictures of the new National Aquatic Centre in Abbottstown. It is due to formally open next Monday.

    • March 6, 2003 at 7:37 pm #725174
      brunel
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      You can find a lot of pictures on their homepage – no decent shot of the finished exterior though.


      Some info from the architects webiste can be found here. You have to laugh when they say “The NAC has already been recognised as one of the finest and largest leisure facilities of its kind in Europe” – ah hello it hasn’t even been opened yet !!!

    • March 6, 2003 at 7:51 pm #725175
      GrahamH
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      Wow, I love that circular building. 21st century Turner.

      (With lots of water)

    • March 6, 2003 at 10:31 pm #725176
      brunel
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      Well I suppose ‘after’ the Celtic Tiger we do have two 50m pools, the absence of which was a major grip 10 years ago…

    • March 6, 2003 at 10:33 pm #725177
      brunel
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      Forgot about the one in Clontarf… make that THREE 50m pools !!!

    • March 7, 2003 at 9:32 am #725178
      PaulC
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      Thanks Brunel that is great. Keep a look out for Nationwide – I think they are doing a special on it. Not sure when – possibly this evening at 7:00.

    • March 7, 2003 at 9:44 am #725179
      Niall
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      Horray PROGRESS!!!!!!

    • March 7, 2003 at 9:52 am #725180
      fjp
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      are they giant twiry waterslides???

      oh yeah….

    • March 7, 2003 at 10:11 am #725181
      PaulC
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      Well at least something came out of the whole Sports Campus Ireland thing. An aweful pity the celtic tiger didnt last another 5-10 years, we might have seen more come of it.

    • June 27, 2005 at 4:58 pm #725182
      Lotts
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      S&P‘s Aquatic Center made it back to the headlines today. the pool is leaking at a rate of five million litres of water a month. seems a lot by any standards.
      Maybe now it can be knocked and a national aquatic center built somewhere you can get to.

    • June 27, 2005 at 5:01 pm #725183
      Lotts
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      Though if they hadn’t replaced the roof that blew away the rain might have maintained some kind of balance.. 😀

    • June 28, 2005 at 9:46 am #725184
      GregF
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      ………just as well the Bertie Bowl was’nt built then.

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