€7bn theme park - Project may take planners for a ride

THE coming days will tell whether the world’s most grandiose theme park, the €7 billion Vega City project planned for Ireland, will get off the ground.

A Disney-style venture covering a 2,500-acre area of north county Dublin, it would embrace as many hotels as Killarney and need 75,000 visitors a day to be viable.

Following the appointment of well-known property developer Owen O’Callaghan as chairman of UEP, the US-funded group driving the proposal, it has taken on added status.