KILLARNEY TOWN Council is to decide by Christmas just who will run a €16 million swimming pool and leisure centre for which it borrowed heavily – against the advice of council management and the local chamber of commerce.

The centre was officially opened earlier this year by then ceann comhairle John O’Donoghue. As minister for arts, sport and tourism, Mr O’Donoghue had strongly backed the development, and had secured more than €5 million in grant aid for it.
To help pay for the project, the council both borrowed money and sold a prime town centre site to the OPW for the decentralisation of the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism.
€16m leisure centre for tender - The Irish Times - Wed, Dec 09, 2009