Aquatic centre - Water woes continue with costly mess

BY any stretch of the imagination, the massive leakage of water from the €62 million National Aquatic Centre is a costly shambles.

Laced with cracks only two years after it opened, the damaged facility has made a laughing stock of one of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s pet projects.

Amid fears of subsidence at the site, it is another costly example of taxpayers’ money being squandered by the State which, reportedly, failed to appoint a watchdog engineer during construction.