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FOUR RESIDENTS LIVING close to Tayto Park have put the brakes on plans for a new ‘iconic’ €14 million steel ride roller coaster ride at Ireland’s largest theme park.
This follows the residents, Donal Greene and Clare Smith along with Suzanne Galwey and Jeremy Butcher, lodging a joint appeal to An Bord Pleanála against the decision by Meath County Council to give the project the go-ahead last month.
The appeal now threatens the Tayto Park timeline to have the rollercoaster constructed and open to visitors by 2021 and puts a question mark over the project.
The planned ‘Coaster 2021’ will involve two separate coasters and a 189-page Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) lodged with the planning application outlined the stark need for ‘Coaster 2021’ for the future of Tayto Park.
The document states that if the Tayto Park operators do not add a major attraction at this time “the longer term viability of the park would be brought into question”.
The planning documents state that ‘Coaster 2021’ will help projected visitor numbers to Tayto Park - owned by businessmen, Ray Coyle - increase by 15% from 630,000 in 2019 to 725,000 in 2023.
However, in their objection against the plan, Ms Galwey and Mr Butcher -who live 200m from the Tayto Park entrance – have stated that they feel that “this development is entirely inappropriate from the perspectives of traffic, noise and overall disruption”.
They stated that they support the presence of Tayto Park in their community, but state that the development is of inappropriate scale for the rural area.
The two state that they currently experience noticeable noise pollution from the park from the existing Cú Chulainn rollercoaster from ratcheting sounds, riders’ screams and the roaring of the cars and the train whenever the park is open.
They state: “We have tolerated this erosion of our quiet enjoyment of our traditional rural domestic environment in a spirit of supporting local enterprise.”
In their own objection, Clare Smith and Donal Greene state that they live 700 metres from the entrance.
They state that they have lived in the area since 2013 and “our family has been based in this area since the 1970s”.
We feel that the proposed new development will have a serious negative long term impact on our peaceful enjoyment, and critically the long term value of our home. We currently experience noticeable noise pollution from the park and the existing roller-coaster and the train whenever the park is open.
The objectors said that the new rollercoaster “will present a further escalation in the impact to our lives. We chose to live in this area with the expectation of a quiet environment to raise our small children”.
They also stated that new roller-coaster “would be directly visible from our back garden and the bedrooms at the rear of our home”.
Tayto Park declined to comment on the appeal and a decision is due on the appeal in early July.
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Looking at the amount of make-up she is wearing in the photo one has to wonder why she failed in ‘eating herself beautiful’.
Maybe she’s eating the makup
It’s amazing how often this trick works. I am beautiful. This is what I eat (or pretend to). If you eat this, you will be beautiful too. When you fail, that’s because you didn’t follow the plan closely enough.
and the sheeple lap it up
A fool is soon parted from her money.
She will have a RTE cooking programme soon.
Noooooooooo
That’s ok, I don’t watch RTE.
I bet you do
Has she included her Playboy pictures in the book or something? Or maybe free family tickets to Disneyland? People are hardly buying it for its “intellectual” and “Educational” content.
Naturopaths have been accused of being charlatans and practicing quackery.
So disappointed to hear she doesn’t eat meat
I think she’d spit it out.
Saw article in my local paper about local lady who did a ” one year full time correspondence course” about food. She’s now claiming to be a gut health expert! She and her business partner have written a book about children’s food!
Laughable that someone who completed a short correspondence course can claim to know what they’re talking about with authority.
See, people assume because we have computers and spacecraft that modern humans are different to those that wanted to lynch Galileo. Truth is there are still a lot of stupid and gullible people in the world.
It’s no surprise to me the book is so popular.
Her recipes, like, cure autism, schizophrenia, and arthritis.
Nutritionist?? ha ha ha. Fools and their money are easily parted.
Is it bound with gluten-free glue? Otherwise I can’t take her seriously.
Eat yourself beautiful…. Doesn’t always work
Oh I don’t know about that. Sumo wrestlers in Japan have quite a female following!
If there’s one thing the Internet has taught me is there is a fetish for anything
@ Brian ward
Yes Joan Burton…..
Fantastic news story
Could anybody give us an idea as to what sort of sales another book in this category would normally expect just so as to give us a comparison. Isn’t there a big difference between the amount of books printed and the amount sold? So is it a case of 7,000 books sitting in Easons and Waterstones or sitting in a warehouse awaiting expected sales rather than the books actually having gone out over the tills?
I could be wrong but i think reprints are done when the initial run has or is about to run out, tho I’m not sure if it’s based on wholesale or retail orders
What I love about these cookbooks are the ingredients are so easily accessible and reasonably priced, why should I have cornflakes when I can make my own dragonfruit, quinea and kale alternative?
I thought this book was in the fiction category?
None of the food pics actually look nice. Life is too short for such a restrictive diet
she has great baps
Suppose it’s better than ‘Vomit Yourself Thin’…
Find this tripe in the “I really need to get out more” section of your local bookshop.
Eat yourself beautiful. Eat more fruit and veg especially leafy greens, move more and get lots of fresh air, get sleep and drink water. The end. Now, where’s my retainer Gill & McMillan? How many more cookbooks to eating healthy do people need, it’s only common feckin sense.
Ah yes. Rosanna Davidsons recipes can cure my son’s Autism “condition” (as she called it) I must remind myself when I’m giving him homemade spag bol and the dreaded weetabix for breakfast that it’s my fault and I could easily cure him if I would just stop giving him a well balanced diet!!
I’ve a type of arthritis , which is helped greatly by cutting out all starch in my diet …so much so I can go off all medication if I’m very strict with my diet ..just saying .
More anti-dairy pro vegan sh*te no doubt.
anyone who eats meet or dairy is very naive in this day and age
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