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Casement Park upgrade gets planning permission

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    #32
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Why would anyone want to have to face the A1 into Belfast to go to a provincial final or something anyway? It's not even like it's in to the city far enough that there's anything around it.


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    #33
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,884 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    threeball wrote: »
    That's all grand if it's the appropriate sized stadium but all we have in the GAA are dozen stadia that are never fully and the number is getting bigger
    PUC - never full except for one day a year and maybe a concert.
    McHale - Never full since it was built
    Gaelic Grounds - Never full
    Thurles- Full once or twice a year
    Fitzgerald - Never full
    Pearse - Never full
    Clones - full once a year at best

    Even croker is vastly oversized. There's certainly no point in building another. Stadium up keep is very expensive

    MacHale Park and Pearse most certainly have often being full or near enough as makes no odds, though i absolutely agree about not building anymore


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    #34
    Bonniedog
    Registered Users Posts: 6,665 ✭✭✭Bonniedog


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Why would anyone want to have to face the A1 into Belfast to go to a provincial final or something anyway? It's not even like it's in to the city far enough that there's anything around it.

    Not much close to it. 3/4 pubs including the Felons up the road, and a couple of chippers and a shopping centre that is mostly closed on a Sunday. If you walk down closer to town there are a few nice enough places, but doesn't have that feeling of a match friendly town, unlike Thurles or kilkenny.

    Although I suppose Limerick and cork are similarly badly situated.


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    #35
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,462 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    shockframe wrote: »
    Casement park would be better off being built with a size of 20,000 at first with scope for expansion if the initial stadium is successful.

    Yes, it isn't as if anyone would oppose an exspansion.
    awec wrote: »
    The council would never give away land like that, there would be uproar.

    "Giving" the land from a sportsfield to a sportsfield which is mostly being paid for by public funds.
    The GAAs problem has always been that their business case never really stood up to scrutiny. They were over ambitious from the start, thought they could steamroll over residents and it was all downhill from there.

    They certainly were lazy in doing the work. But they were building a stadium where there had been a large stadium all along.


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    #36
    Jupiter Mulligan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Jupiter Mulligan


    I see the sad state of CP has made the Irish Times today. I wasn't aware of the problems, but it seems a shame that the Ulster Council/Croke Park/NI Assembly/Belfast City Council and/or whoever else is involved can't sort things out.

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    The Backdoor: Time to take a stand as Antrim remain homeless


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