Tayto Park plans to build huge €14m steel rollercoaster

Says owner Ray Coyle: "If you don’t create something landmark every three or four years, your numbers will start going down and that is the road to closure.”

Ireland’s largest theme park Tayto Park is to lodge a planning application for its biggest attraction to date, an ‘iconic’ €14m steel rollercoaster ride in the coming days.

Owner of Tayto Park Ray Coyle said today that the new rollercoaster will be the same height as the park's 32-metre high Cú Chulainn but will be 400 metres longer than the 1,082-metre long Cú Chulainn ride.