Update on Bushmills Dunes

[Ted Harris]

http://www.u.tv/News/Legal-challenge-mounted-over-Runkerry/898273d6-8e96-4c3f-a7cd-9df43ac3b650

I would have thought a 120 room hotel and 75 villas might have helped Portrush in its ability to host an Open

[Mark_F]

I would have thought a 120 room hotel and 75 villas might have helped Portrush in its ability to host an Open

Why don't they go ahead and build just that then?  After all, if there is a real need for a "piece of world class tourism infrastructure on the North Antrim Coast", there would appear to be a good opportunity there.

[Tom_Doak]

The comments section on the news site is priceless.  One of the commenters would prefer they develop a motocross track there!

Mark, the m.o. of all developers is that you don't give the town what they want before they agree to give you what YOU want, too.  I had a client who got ahead of themselves in that department, and did a lot of things the county wanted in advance.  We never got to build that course.