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Ad for Hollystown golf course

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  • 07-03-2013 4:10pm
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    gabsdot40
    Registered Users Posts: 366 ✭✭


    Have you heard this ad. John Giles and Eammon Dunphy waffeling on .
    Anyway, Apparently Hollystown Golf course is 5 minutes from Blanchardstown Shopping centre.
    I live in Mulhuddart and my kids go to Tyrrelstown ETNS. My son regularly times the drive and it takes 7 minutes from our house in Mulhuddart to Tyrrelstown. Hollystown is at least another couple of minutes further on. Then it's around 5 minutes from our house to the SC.
    How do they get away with these lies!!!!!


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    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Totally agree. I'm in Mulhuddart too and up to Hollytown is about 10 mins and that's knowing the way. Its a difficult place to find if you aren't familiar with the area. Maybe they are anticipating the new road being built, that will probably speed up the travel time :D


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    Pat Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    Ahh.. yes, the power of advertising :)


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    [Deleted User]
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    Ah sure we might as well do a bit of simple math and research to show they're wrong.

    Distance from centre to Hollystown: ~6Km (Google Maps)

    To do it in 5mins would need an average speed of around 70Km. Google maps says it would take around 11mins.

    Yeah, sometimes ads tell "untruths" ;)


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    amdublin
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    I'd completely agree with you.

    But at the same time, it's not a million miles away from the towncentre either! Slight exaggeration I'd describe it as.


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Make a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland:
    http://www.asai.ie/complain.asp


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    oblivious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    gabsdot40 wrote: »
    How do they get away with these lies!!!!!

    Any one remember the ads for The vortex dunshaughlin, "20 minute from Grafton street" Now that was some lie


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    dickwod1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭dickwod1


    oblivious wrote: »
    Any one remember the ads for The vortex dunshaughlin, "20 minute from Grafton street" Now that was some lie

    No it wasn't a lie :pac:... they were on about a helicopter ride from Grafton St. to Dunshaughlin ;)


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