The trampolines being removed from Fort Lucan's grounds Image: Fort Lucan via Facebook The trampolines being removed from Fort Lucan's grounds Image: Fort Lucan via Facebook AN OUTDOOR ADVENTURE centre has been forced to remove some of its equipment as a result of hikes in insurance costs.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Fort Lucan general manager Gillian Martin Smith said that the company’s insurance premium has doubled since 2015.When the company went to renew its insurance cover last year, she said, the insurers requested another €25,000 to insure the two trampolines at Fort Lucan. Martin Smith emphasised that Fort Lucan never opened without the trampolines being fully supervised. She said no adults were permitted on them, only one child at a time was allowed and no somersaults or dangerous bouncing was permitted.
“There’s not many small businesses in Ireland that can cope with that level of increase,” Martin Smith said. “You see kids coming into the fort and you never, ever see a child in Fort Lucan picking up an iPhone or a screen. They are playing from the minute they arrive to the minute they leave and if they have to have lunch, they’ll sit down, eat their lunch with their parents and they’re gone again,” she said.Over the past number of months, a number of adventure centres and play centres have faced closure in Ireland due to hikes in insurance costs.Earlier this month, TheJournal.
Will the wonderful Centre Parcs near Ballymahon get off the ground with this litigious and insurance scam society we've become? 900 jobs in the Midlands is like 10000 jobs in Dublin Cork or Galway
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The swings will have to go...
Was it the swings ?
Ridiculous.
They heard Maria Bailey was thinking of taking the kids there over the Summer
I’d needs a revamp same stuff still there since I was a kid
They used to call them jumpolines, until one day a South side Dublin TD had a go on one. swinggate MariaBailey
And the unsupervised swings
Especially the swings!
Was the equipment swings by any chance?