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FAMILY RESORT OPERATOR Center Parcs has revealed a glimpse inside the €200 million holiday park it has planned for Longford.
The UK company plans to build its first “holiday village” outside England on a 375-acre tranche of land at Newcastle Wood in the midlands county.
The resort developer wants permission to build 500 lodges – including several treehouses – a spa, nature centre, shops, restaurants and a “subtropical swimming paradise” on the Coillte-owned site.
The release of its detailed masterplan is the last step in a consultation process before the company puts in its planning application. It isn’t expected the venue, to be called Center Parcs Longford Forest, will be open to visitors until 2019.
The company’s CEO, Martin Dalby, said today marked a “significant milestone” in the plan to bring Center Parcs to Ireland.
It claims the development would bring 1,000 permanent jobs and 750 temporary construction jobs to the region, adding €32 million to the Irish economy each year once up and running.
However the company has previously been criticised for doing little to help local economies as guests typically stayed only for weekends and spent all their time on-site. Some 1.7 million guests stayed in its resorts last financial year.
A separately-owned but affiliated company, Center Parcs Europe, operates 21 resorts in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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No effect on me. Some of the patterns look pretty, like the snail shell.
Which hole does it scutter out of.lol
Its not the holes in the Lotus fruit that gives me the willies. It is those eyes peeking out of them.
U was wondering myself whether being put off by the eyes made me an *insert word here*
All this time I thought I was a freak. Please can someone tell me if there’s a cure? I could only look at the first one and now my day is ruined. I can’t actually believe there’s a name for it!
Evolution has passed me by, I’d happily pick any of them up.
Au contraire, young Jim. Evolution has hit the pause button for the 16%, not you!
Thanks Robin, just picked up this puffer fish.
It’s not good.
I like looking at the above images. Love the frogs…
That lotus pod thing totally gives me the willies!!!! :-0
The lotus pod looks like a larvae pod. Thanks to my dad keeping maggots in the fridge when I was a kid the picture has no affect on me.
I find looking at the honey comb gives me a sense of tranquility.
Where did you keep your food? Were they live?
They were kept in a container in the fridge along side our food. He used them for fishing.
I think most of them are beautiful
Try them with a Sinn Fein/ULA budget proposal…
Hahaha…that’s brilliant that is! Really brilliant….More!More!More!
Thanks
Oh for f**k sake.
Yes terrifying if you are on a large wage & avoiding Tax by the FF,FG & LAB schemes designed to benefit the elite!
For what died the sons of Roisin,
Was it greed!
I’ve had this for years and never knew why it freaked me out. The lotus thing makes me feel terror and disgust and physically ill!
Not sure I agree with the study findings though as none of those poisonous animals freak me out.
To fellow sufferers: now that you know the name don’t google it. The images that come up will disturb you for weeks! I made that mistake about a year ago!
*shudders*
Aw man!!! I wasn’t freaked out by the holes so figured I was safe enough to do exactly what you said not to do….. Now I’m resolved to staying in bed under my covers forever.
The lotus fruit image freaked me out a bit it looks like eyes staring out of the holes
First picture really gets to me!
Call me nerd, but i think this really interesting stuff! I never thought that the patterns would be just as important as the crazy colours for warning off predators. I don’t think I have a phobia but there is definitely some faint weirdness going on!
Most of them are quite pretty! But the first one looks like loads of eyeballs! Yuck!
Trippppy!!!
You’ve just ruined my day :( vomit
In other news 85.87% of statistics are made up.
I remember reading the Ryanair flight magazine last year and there was an article in which the writer described that he had eaten so much Hawaiian pizza that he felt like pineapple was squeezing from his pores. That image still turns my stomach and turned me completely off my favourite pizza. I’ve never read his articles again when flying.
Apologies if I’ve turned anyone else’s stomach, blame Ryanair. Eugh I’m getting shivers thinking about it.
They’re all so colourful and pretty
It ain’t the honeycomb that freaks me out but being that close to potentially hundreds of bees would make me kak the pants…
absolutely disgusting images. you can add the inside of a pepper to that. pure revulsion
That blob thing that was named the ugliest creature really did turn my stomach. I’m sure he’s a lovely fella once you get to know him
The first two images made me gag, the second image in particular.
I don’t have a phobia but I actually feel a bit sick now after looking at a couple of those. How bizarre. I’d never heard of it before
The spots on a banana or on a pancake make me feel funny.
I thought they were pretty some even beautiful . Wonder how the feck my ancestors survived at all if we don’t possess this genetic fear of poisonous animal and plant life. Can just Imagine it now. Sp pretty must taste ………
First one freaks me out
The blue frog looks extremely unpredictable. Wouldnt trust him.
Yuck
U know what makes me ill…the inside of yellow melons!!! The pips/seeds and slime turn my stomach something shockin!!!!
It’s more disgusting when it’s photoshopped like this: http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/239/a/e/trypophobia_by_otettttt-d5clgnk.jpg
*barf*
Unfortunately, the first picture reminds me of the “shower heads” in the Auschwitz gas chambers.
Apart from that awful association, I find the pictures interesting.
Ya im not a fan of small holes myself:/
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