Aquatic centre to cost €1.8m more

THE troubled National Aquatic Centre, left, will cost taxpayers another €1.8 million this year, it emerged yesterday.

Fine Gael Arts and Sports spokeswoman Olivia Mitchell said she was “dumbstruck” by the size of the subsidy for a project bedeviled by controversy which has already taken €70 million in public funds.

“It is alarming to hear that now the NAC is operating again it is doing so at a massive loss of at least €1.8m,” she said.