Council eyes turbine-run €18m sports park

DUBLIN City Council is to develop the country’s first avant-garde sustainable sports, leisure and amenity park.

Five wind turbines will provide the electricity for the pioneering €18 million state-of-the-art facility, located on a 55-acre green space at Fr Collins Park in north Dublin.

It will have a lake and promenade, several football pitches, running tracks and picnic and play areas.