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03/11/2010
Tipperary Sports Venue To Create Jobs
Plans for a new €460m sports and leisure complex in north Tipperary have been unveiled.
The development named The Tipperary Venue will create around 1,000 jobs during the three years of construction and 2,000 full-time jobs once complete.
Dublin-based businessman Richard Quirke's proposal's for the 800-acre development, beside the village of Two-Mile Borris, include a 500 room hotel, casino, racecourse featuring a National Hunt Track, Sprint Track and all-weather floodlit track.
A golf course and greyhound track are also planned alongside a 15,000-seat entertainment venue.
Racehorse trainer, Aidan O'Brien, concert promoter Denis Desmond and local Independent TD, Michae Lowry, have all backed the scheme.
(GK)
The development named The Tipperary Venue will create around 1,000 jobs during the three years of construction and 2,000 full-time jobs once complete.
Dublin-based businessman Richard Quirke's proposal's for the 800-acre development, beside the village of Two-Mile Borris, include a 500 room hotel, casino, racecourse featuring a National Hunt Track, Sprint Track and all-weather floodlit track.
A golf course and greyhound track are also planned alongside a 15,000-seat entertainment venue.
Racehorse trainer, Aidan O'Brien, concert promoter Denis Desmond and local Independent TD, Michae Lowry, have all backed the scheme.
(GK)
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