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John discusses the design process in our renovation to Sands Amusements in Bundoran
Welcome to Sands Amusements Found on Main Street, Bundoran, Donegal – we’re open 9.30am until 1am every day! Sands Amusements is more than just a casino – it’s the complete leisure destination! With twenty-five 18-hole and fourteen 9-hole courses from which to choose, at Bundoran you are never more than a short drive away from a championship course. The magnificent links along the Atlantic seaboard exploit the spectacular coastal landscape and provide some of the most challenging and exhilarating golf in Ireland.
This is one of my favourite projects that we’ve completed here at Coastline.
With so many locations around Ireland, it’s important that we don’t forget that each club experience matters. The benefits of renovation can give a club a new lease of life, winning new custom, keeping current players happy as well as bringing back inactive players. In February 2019, work began on refurbishing our Colms Amusements location in Bundoran, Donegal. It was to get a complete makeover both inside and out, along with a name change.
The building was starting to look a bit dated, and we wanted to make it feel fresh and modern to match with other locations in the business.
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We went through multiple iterations of what it could look like:
And created a longlist of about 50 different casino names.
Which became a shortlist of 6.
And no we’re not sharing any of them because I hope to use them all someday.
Eventually we settled on the name Sands – a hat tip to a classic casino in Las Vegas whilst also being relevant to the beaches in Bundoran.
Our design for the exterior finally settled on having TV screens in the windows, eye-catching orange paint and our own Sands logo in black and white above the building.
The paint was added to brighten up the building, meaning members of the public travelling through Main Street in Bundoran wouldn’t be able to miss it. The old wooden sign was updated with a new LED-lit sign to bring the newly renamed casino into the 21st Century.
Upstairs windows were given a perspex panel with a neon casino icon in each. They really pop out against the black backdrop.
Furthermore, the 5 large screens were added to the main windows to advertise to passers-by. Inside, across both floors, a new layout to the entire casino was implemented, with a much more organised selection of machines provided for members to enjoy.
This new layout was further complimented by the introduction of completely new chairs for every machine in the casino. These new chairs, a comfortable state-of-the-art casino-style swivel chair, were an instant hit with the members of Sands.
The refurbishment was very well received by members of the club and it actually ended up surpassing other locations of the business to the point where we’re planning on re-using some of the design elements from it in other places.
If you’re ever in Bundoran, Sands always has a welcoming atmosphere for you to enjoy.
But the betting in Bundoran, Co Donegal, was that the lucky punter was more likely to be a local than a visitor.
The main rumour circulating was that the ticket was bought by a soldier in nearby Finner Camp.
Corporal Brian Warnock, 38, at the centre of the speculation, was still at work yesterday.
“Do you think if I won I’d be here? If I got €12m I wouldn’t be paying any attention to formal notice for time off .”
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Corp Warnock, a married man, lives in Bundoran. Both his mother Celia and his wife Caroline were still at home, vehemently denying he was a winner.
Celia said: “I know it’s all over town but it is totally untrue.”
A Defence Forces spokesperson said: “We have checked with the named individual and we know the speculation to be false.”
Brian McGovern, owner of the American House, the newsagent and souvenir shop that sold the winning ticket, said that out of his large Lotto ticket sales, a small percentage bought €12 tickets.
It was a quickpick line on a €12 ticket bought on Wednesday that scooped the biggest jackpot ever won in the north-west.
Bachelor Brian, 71, said: “We have sold a lot of tickets to people who have got on to Winning Streak over the years.
“Some of them have won up to €70,000, including cars, on that. I hear it’s not going to be on television any more. That’s a great pity, because it attracts many Lotto customers.”
Brian said the winner could be a holidaymaker, but the fact that the ticket was bought on the same day as the draw meant that it was more likely to be a local.
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There were thousands of visitors in Bundoran over the holiday weekend but those numbers were reduced by Wednesday.
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Brian said: “Most of the €12 tickets are for local syndicates.”