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BlanchardstownBlanchardstown (Baile Bhlainsir in Irish) is a suburb of Dublin City, Ireland. Originally a town in its own right, it is now a large township in Fingal – a subdivision of North County Dublin – and serves as a regional administrative centre along with Swords. The suburb is the location of Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown. Sports Campus Ireland It was envisaged that an area of Blanchardstown called Abbotstown was to be set aside to create Sports Campus Ireland - a new center of sporting excellence. The Campus was to have an Acadamy of Sports Science, over a dozen traing fields, a 50m aquatics center, a 65,000 seater stadium, a sports village for accomadation and several other facilities. Due to absurd cost extimates, the plans have been redrawn to exclude the stadium and to scale back the size of the remaining facilities. To date only the aquatics center has been completed. It is known as the National Aquatics Center (NAC) - ironically being the second aquatics center in the country to open, the NAC was preceded by a similier center called the Arena center in Limerick. Blanchardstown Shopping Center The Blanchardstown Shopping Center was Ireland's second major shopping center at its completion (it followed the Square in Tallaght) and is today the countries largest shopping center. Owned by Green Property, the center consists of a central mall with dozens of relatively small retail units, a multiplex cinema, lesiure center (bowling alleys, archades and quazar), a gym, office blocks and several larger outlying retail units. See also External link
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