Councillor brands white water rafting facility as city manager's 'vanity project'

Dublin City Councillors voted last night to let a plan for a white water rafting and Olympic canoe centre go ahead in the north inner city.

Update: Independent Dublin City Councillor Mannix Flynn has described plans for a white water rapids rafting circuit and polo pool at George’s Dock as “superficial and artificial” and a “vanity project” for the city manager Owen Keegan.

He told RTÉ radio’s Today with Séan O’Rourke show that it was “an absolute lie of the first order” that the fire services were in favour of the €22m project which will include an emergency service training facility.