We’re taking a huge gamble with plans for supercasino complex

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?

What other country decides that the location for this venture, if things happens to make its centrepiece legal, is suitable when it falls outside the terms of the national strategy for the proper use of land and when an assigned and qualified planning inspector makes an explicit recommendation against granting permission?

What other country would give approval for the construction of a mass of tourist facilities, other than the illegal one, when we already have a surplus of those, and when the State has had to take possession of an enormous number of them at an enormous financial cost?