TAXING online gambling and a crackdown on unregulated clubs are planned as the Government attempts to raise money and protect addicts.

PROMOTERS of the proposed super-casino in Tipperary have vowed to press ahead with their plans despite the Government yesterday ruling out legislation allowing so-called large resort-style casinos.

Plans for a multimillion-euro Las Vegas-style casino appear dead after new laws were announced ruling out large-scale gambling resorts.

MATT Cooper (Opinion, June 17), concisely catalogues the patent fallacies of the Tipperary casino-complex proposal, offering risk-assessment, reasoned reality and regular horse sense en-route.

THE ruin hugs the rugged shore straddling the bays of Ballinskelligs and Waterville. Once upon a long ago it was a hotel. Today it sits in an overgrown field, a three-storey concrete skeleton, like something lifted from a bomb-ravaged city. You can walk up and look inside the walls at the rubble, the moth eaten furniture, the sepia-toned dreams pummelled by time.

IT LOOKS like we never learn in this country, no matter what. What other country grants planning permission for a €460 million development that depends for its financial success on the inclusion of something that is not legal?

BUSINESSMAN Richard Quirke unveiled his grand vision for what was quickly dubbed a “Las Vegas-style” development in October 2009 — not the most auspicious of times for the start of a €460 million investment in the middle of Co Tipperary.

THE firm behind Dublin gaming arcade Dr Quirkey’s Good Time Emporium saw its profit after tax fall from €4.3 million to €1.5m last year.

THE hotel element of a €460 million sports and leisure complex planned for a rural site in Tipperary will not go ahead if a proposed casino is not allowed, promoters have confirmed.

THE multi-million dollar Breeders’ Cup racing fixture could leave the United States and come to Ireland if a sporting and leisure complex gets the go-ahead, according to champion trainer Aidan O’Brien.

MAJOR players in the horseracing and leisure fields are expected today to publicly back a proposed €460 million hotel, casino and entertainment venue on an 800-acre rural site.

AN oral hearing to discuss objections to a planned super casino in Tipperary is set to take place on March 8.

A PUBLIC hearing is to be held to examine a planned €460 million casino and leisure development for Co Tipperary.

AN TAISCE are appealing against the planning approval granted last month for a proposed €460 million casino, sports and leisure venue in Co Tipperary.

A €460 million sport and leisure venue in Tipperary – incorporating a major casino development – moved a step closer last night when it was granted planning permission by the local council.

ONE THOUSAND construction jobs for north Tipperary for three years, followed by 2,000 more jobs in the finished development sounds like a good deal that no government could object to, especially when no government financial assistance is being sought.

ONE of the consequences of yesterday’s announcement of a new track for Tipperary is confirmation Thurles racecourse will close.

IRELAND could have a new state-of-the-art racecourse by the spring of 2013.

A replica of the White House will form the centrepiece of a €460m Las Vegas-style village deep in the Tipperary countryside, it was announced today.

A 41-YEAR-OLD Co Cork farmer has launched his campaign for election as deputy president of the Irish Farmers Association.

LAST year’s winner Craig Murphy did not compete but Douglas CS kept the senior boys’ individual title thanks to an impressive performance from Richard Quirke at the South Munster Schools cross-country championships hosted by Midleton CBS yesterday.