Could Dublin ever host the Olympics?

WumBuster

Just wondering. Could you ever see this happening?Or is Ireland too much of a small player politically for this ever to be realistic? I mean it is a large, modern, metropolitan city and as the Irish are famous for their warm hospitality. I think it would be deadly and the craic would be mighty.

Diego Maradona

No

Mushy

Maybe if it was decimated by a bomb and then they had to rebuild it with proper stadium and infrastructure.

Otherwise no, never.

Johnny Bitte

No. Sorry, sorry I meant ..... **** no!

Compared to London or any other actual city, Dublin is a smelly, durty, puddle!!

Just compared to others mind.

littlelulu

its not that large!

Chucken

Mushy wrote: »

Maybe if it was decimated by a bomb and then they had to rebuild it with proper stadium and infrastructure.

Otherwise no, never.

This.

cocoshovel

Jesus I cant even imagine how much of a disaster it would be. The emergency services and guards alone would be stressed beyond limits worse than barrack obama's visit to Ireland and the London riots combined.
The poor public transport system would be clogged, thousands of double decker busses and those 2 luas lines jammed.

admiralofthefleet

we cant even organise decent public transport for most of dublin so how do you think we could organise an event like that

Sulla Felix

It'd be hilarious. The city turns into a gridlocked hellhole when there's a bit of rain. Granted Obama and the Queen went off well enough, but they'd have to keep that up for weeeeeks.

Tombi!

Maybe some new events can be introduced!

I'd like to see things like "Getting a Taxi While People Kill One Another". Or maybe "Who Under 18 Looks Most Retarded?".

It could be a great laugh.

But in short, please no.

I can only imagine the amount of ignorance from the skangers "**** off back to X country" "But... but your president invited us here!" "**** OFF WITH THE QUEEN WE DON'T LISTEN TO HER".

And so on.

kfallon

"And you join us here in Santry stadium for the 100m Mens final"

We could just have the shooting competitions in Noctors :pac:

glynf

What about the skanger Olympics?

diceyreilly

The whole of Ireland couldn't host it.

Sunnyisland

Of course we could, Just after we host the World cup,Watanabe president Gay Mitchel thought we could do it .Have to be on to a winner there so.

castletownman

Of course it could. All the amenities are already in place in the city and the hinterland sure.

The aquatic events could be held in Mosney.

The Red Cow roundabout could act as the velodrome for the cycling.

And. Am. Eh.....

littlelulu

they could use the runway in Dublin airport for the long jump...

Diego Maradona

castletownman wrote: »

Of course it could. All the amenities are already in place in the city and the hinterland sure.

The aquatic events could be held in Mosney.

The Red Cow roundabout could act as the velodrome for the cycling.

And. Am. Eh.....

The Spire for swingball

brummytom

Dublin city's 44 sq miles big.


That's tiny. No way.

littlelulu

castletownman wrote: »

The Red Cow roundabout could act as the velodrome for the cycling.
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this made me LOL.... fair play!

LoYL

If Lidl organise the games, yes.

ronaneire

Sure it could :rolleyes:













tiddlywinks olympics

eoferrall

Johnny Bitte wrote: »

Compared to London or any other actual city, Dublin is a smelly, durty, puddle!!

Just compared to others mind.

Clearly not traveled much.


OP - no we couldn't london can't pull it off what chance do we have with far less infrastructure and facilities.

Fratton Fred

Shooting in Finglas?

No, that's not tomorrow's headline in the Herald....

WumBuster

Ok i get the picture

Not big enough
Not enough money
Not enough resources
Not enough top class facilities or transport
Gombeen politicians and officials

Nice to dream though

We'll just stick to what we're best at, organizing piss ups. Drinking Olympics, maybe

goose2005

inb4 some deluded culchie says Cork could host it

fitzYOLO

LOL

cocoshovel

goose2005 wrote: »

inb4 some deluded culchie says Cork could host it

I think Waterford should host it tbh!

mike65

Only one man thinks its possible (and he's an idiot)

seanmacc

I remember listening to a deluded Dublin Lord Mayor Gay Mitchell in 92 in the Coirfheile in the mansion house giving a speech on how plausible and possible it would be for Dublin to put in a bid for the Olympics in 2012 and how he wanted to champion the cause. With the scale, cost and expectations on a host nation of an Olympics back then it would of been possible after years of preparation for Ireland to host it but the games have grown in scale since then. Sports like weightlifting could of been held in a community center hall in the 80's and 90's but even those minority games have massive demand from fans and athletes for big facilities nowadays.
The problem is the world travels now. I blame the Commies for breaking down that wall

Biggins

No.

We can barely host a Eurovison Song Contest!

admiralofthefleet

kfallon wrote: »

"And you join us here in Santry stadium for the 100m Mens final"

We could just have the shooting competitions in Noctors :pac:

nah, the bridge house in dolphins barn bid for that long before noctors

Capt'n Midnight

Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.

That's the size of the HSE budget.

At 6% interest rates that's €840 million a year before you start to pay back any of the money.

seanmacc

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.

That's the size of the HSE budget.

At 6% interest rates that's €840 million a year before you start to pay back any of the money.

Speculate to accumulate.

Ireland could put in a bid for the games if they sold it to the Olympic Committee right. Sell it as a low key enviro, sustainable games with small events sites, no large scale hotel developments ect. We're not a big country so why promise the sun moon and stars. The games need to be pegged back a bit after Beijing anyway

WumBuster

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.

That's the size of the HSE budget.

At 6% interest rates that's €840 million a year before you start to pay back any of the money.

Ah sure Ted we're so deep in debt anyway we might as well. jesus i love drinking!

efb

mike65 wrote: »

Only one man thinks its possible (and he's an idiot)

But sure didnt his mam feed the entire olympic team with her left breast in 1954 in a two bed tenement in Dublin while young Gay was off selling penny apples to keep the bailiffs away... or some sh!t like that...

admiralofthefleet

brummytom wrote: »

Dublin city's 44 sq miles big.


That's tiny. No way.

and dublin city council couldnt organise a piss up in a brewery.

admiralofthefleet

seanmacc wrote: »

Speculate to accumulate.

Ireland could put in a bid for the games if they sold it to the Olympic Committee right. Sell it as a low key enviro, sustainable games with small events sites, no large scale hotel developments ect. We're not a big country so why promise the sun moon and stars. The games need to be pegged back a bit after Beijing anyway

they could fill the judges with black bush. the games would then be held on the moon

donvito99

We could host the Special Olympics again...

Latchy

WumBuster wrote: »

Just wondering. Could you ever see this happening?Or is Ireland too much of a small player politically for this ever to be realistic? I mean it is a large, modern, metropolitan city and as the Irish are famous for their warm hospitality. I think it would be deadly and the craic would be mighty.

No . Irish hearts would all be in the right place but the reality of showcasing such a huge event would be stretching the manpower and resources beyond what's available and required to stage it

efb

donvito99 wrote: »

We could host the Special Olympics again...

No, we had money then, we couldnt host the homeless olympics now

mikemac1

Put in a bid with Scotland and Wales?

I know it's awarded to a city but sharing is caring

admiralofthefleet

donvito99 wrote: »

We could host the Special Olympics again...

we got gold in the play dough in that didnt we?

haro124

We did actually apply to host the 1936 games !

Paz-CCFC

Mushy wrote: »

Maybe if it was decimated by a bomb

Never mind the Olympics, that's a good idea in general.

WumBuster

efb wrote: »

No, we had money then, we couldnt host the homeless olympics now

Just thinking. It could be possible if we do what we always do in our hour of need- receive special funding from our brothers of the diaspora in the Americas, Australias and Britain(of course)

DEFTLEFTHAND

What does it do but saddle a country with debt anyway, all for a brief fleeting moment in the world's eye. Montreal for instance only finished repaying their Olympic debt in 2006, a full thirty years after they hosted the games.

London looks set to also struggle, remember they won their bid back in 2005 when everything seemed a lot rosier in the financial world.

Latchy

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Cost of the UK games will be about £11 Bn = €14 Bn.

Cameron's hedging his bets that this spectacle will help bring much need foreign investment into UK to.

Motorist

Havin a mare buddy.

WumBuster

Well we'd definitely put on a good opening ceremony(Riverdance, Westlife, Rousing speech from Enda etc)
But the rest would be a disaster

demanufactured

cocoshovel wrote: »

I think Waterford should host it tbh!

Nah your both wrong...It should be held in moate.

oppenheimer1

Ireland is simply too small to host the Olympic games as it is currently configured. In order to hold the games here, you would be essentially required to rebuild Dublin, with a number of high capacity metro lines. We would also need to build hundreds of hotels, much more than we have already (and we have too many as it stands). A new airport would also be required. We would have to increase the size of our security forces by about 4 fold.

Then we get to the sports infrastructure. We would require a large multi sport stadium, another olympic swimming complex, velodrome, media centre and countless other arenas. These would all see no use after the games. Even Beijing has a number of abandoned venues, and the main stadium gets hardly any use. (that said thousands visit it each day) - can you imagine what it would be like here?

I wouldn't say we couldn't have afforded it a few years ago. Indeed if we had gone and hosted them, the total cost of the games would seem cheap compared to the cost of the bank bailout.

I don't think many countries can now afford to hold the games, but they remain a strong political statement. The games have grown so big that they have now become unsustainable in the current model. It wouldn't surprise me if the IOC is eventually forced to opt for a host nation, rather than host city

Ireland is a country of 5 million. To put this in the perspective of the Olympic games - there are 8 million tickets available for events in London.