Irish Independent- A “class all-rounder" brings animatronic dinosaurs to Kilkenny
“Do you want to hold a piece of dinosaur?” Head ranger at Jurassic Newpark Luke O’Connell has a Triceratops fossil in his hand. The small bone is 66 million years old and bears evidence of a possible T-Rex’s bite. The kids and adults around him are spellbound.
We’re not on a dig in North America. Or a fictional island west of Costa Rica. We’re in the fields behind a four-star hotel in Kilkenny. And Luke’s super dino talks are just the start of it. Spread around several acres are a dozen life-size, animatronic dinosaurs — from a T-Rex to Velociraptors and a Brachiosaurus.
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