{"id":159090,"date":"2025-11-25T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:37:11","slug":"olympic-sized-ice-rinks-and-over-1600-jobs-inside-dublins-winter-sports-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159090\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic-sized ice rinks and over 1,600 jobs:\u00a0Inside Dublin’s winter sports arena"},"content":{"rendered":"

A world-class winter sports arena, planned for south Dublin, is expected to attract 1.3 million visitors per year.<\/p>\n

The centre in Cherrywood, which will include two Olympic-sized ice rinks, will be home to the country’s first ice hockey franchise, while also hosting concerts and other events.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Newstalk<\/p>\n

It is expected to create around 80 full-time jobs and over 1,600 part-time employment sessions, with nearly 400 direct roles supported during planning and construction.<\/p>\n

Chief executive of Prime Arena Holdings, Dermot Rigley, said they are currently working on designs before submitting a planning application next year.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Newstalk, he said: “This is going to be an incredible economic driver for the country.<\/p>\n

“I mentioned the NFL… and the amount of money that’s getting spent on hotels, restaurants, golf courses, you name it, and we want to be able to bring that to Ireland.<\/p>\n

“Not just as a one off, but genuinely, we want to bring here every year. For that 1.3 million we project to come through, that spend will be about \u20ac298 million per annum.”<\/p>\n

As well as two Olympic-sized ice rinks, the facility will also have a 5,000-seat\/8,000-standing capacity arena, and a 1,500-capacity conference space.<\/p>\n

Designed by DMOD Architects and supported by a team of experts, Dublin Arena aims to blend sustainability with striking design, inspired by Cherrywood\u2019s heritage and set against views of the Wicklow Mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A world-class winter sports arena, planned for south Dublin, is expected to attract 1.3 million visitors per year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-159090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}