A wee gamble
I see some Irish have not lost their sense of humour.
They want to build a casino in Two Mile Borris in the middle of Ireland. They have actually gotten planning permission for it.
The idea is to build a two acre casino, a racetrack and a 500 bed hotel. They reckon it is going to be a world leader in casinos. They point to Las Vagas and argue that that started with a single one armed bandit machine. They reckon that Two Mile Borris is to be the new Monte Carlo.
This little idea is going to cost in the region of half a billion.
There are a couple of things though that they seem to have overlooked.
Ireland has too many hotels. During the boom years they built hotels like they were going out of fashion. Every back road in the fucking country seems to have its own hotel, and most of them are having a mighty struggle to survive. And they want to build another?
They want to build a racetrack, when we probably have more race-tracks per head of population than any other country in the world.
You won’t believe this, but they also want to build an exact full size replica of the White House.
Two Mile Borris?
There is another small snag that they may have overlooked.
Casinos are illegal in Ireland.
Fucking idiots.
You have to laugh.
Else you’d cry.
i sit shaking my head, laugh or cry so true
The stupidity of the idea leaves me speechless.
Can’t you just see the great gamblers of the world tossing a coin – “now which shall it be? Las Vagas, Monte Carlo or Two Mile Borris?”
A new White House is a great idea. I’d certainly be willing to send the the current White House resident over there to occupy it.
I went to a wedding one time near there. A town called Cashel.
Yahoo TT.
They talked, planned and bullshitted about building a ‘Disney’ type park in Meath a while ago too.
It never happened, neither will this latest stupid idea. It would require people with lots of spare cash, lets face it, who would prefare to go to Las Vagas where there are more Casinos and Sunshine, of go to Monte Carlo, again more Casinos and Sunshine.
Why the fuck would any rich bastard want to come here to our pissing rain country to gamble away their money to one Casino.
The only rich ones who came here to gamble were the gobshites who invested in our banks and buildings, mind you they were in a win win gamble, were’nt they. Fuckers get their money back.
The best we could do was Mosney, even that closed.
I’m listening to today’s liveline podcast as I type this. Pissing myself.
What’s the betting they get the planning …. ?
Eh! They got it……..
But sure t’wasn’t the White House designed by an Irishman? It wouldn’t be a replica of an American Icon, it’d be a replica of Leinster House, and sure where’s the harm in that?
Oldspook – They are probably planning to clone their own copy, thanks.
TT – Cashel is hard to miss. It’s got a fucking great rock with a ruin on it. Mind you, that applies to a lot of Irish towns these days..
Martin – Much as I hate Liveline, Herself was listening to it today so I too had to listen in and have a wee chuckle. I honestly felt sorry for some of the gobshites and their pure naivety.
John – They got their planning permission. Someone in the Planning Department has a sense of humour too.
Slab – I just told him that.
K8 – Where’s the harm in that? You mean the damage done by one Leinster House wasn’t enough?
I mean for the casino. What odds would you give that they get that license. Lowery of the brown evelopes is involved remember ……
They should be invited to the next Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival as star attractions.