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Waterford: Casino planned for burial site |
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
An Bord Pleanála has given its approval to a plan by gambling company Blazin’ Aces Partnership to turn into a casino two retail units at St John’s Lane in Waterford city, close to a four-hundred-year-old Quaker burial ground. The original application had prompted a number of objections, one from Brendan McCann, and another from Councillor Davy Walsh. The Clerk of the local Society of Friends Meeting has also expressed his opposition, since Society members do not agree with gambling. The burial site was presented to the local authority by the Quakers nearly sixty years ago on the understanding that it would be kept as an open space in perpetuity. It was subsequently used as a car park.
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