GAA Infastructure

They are right to fell isolated because the British don't give a fuk about them and barely know they exist.

The sooner they come to terms with that the better.

I think this bid makes Casement less likely because now the GAA can't fall back on a simplified design. Gonna be UEFA standard or nothing now.

If they do not the Irish Government will step in and fast forwards Killarney development and that will be the replacement venue

Problem is it will be a good few years before it gets an official boot. Will be deadlines.followed by deadlines for a good while first.

The British government are on the hook for a new stadium at Casement in any case. This is not a new stadium for the 2028 games, it is a stadium that is being built anyway that will have some additional modifications to facilitate the soccer. I expect they will also be spending some money elsewhere on stadia, transport etc to facilitate this bid.

Considering the GAA are off the hook for casement you'd think they'd at least cover Louth to build a new stadium. Potential for good support in the county but they literally have the worse setup in the country.

Unfortunately the GAA don't "need" or "want" Louth winning so they'll get shafted.

Same for Kildare if they don't support big upgrade efforts for that county.

Some counties are just looking to blame boogie men for crumbling stands they should have sorted years ago.

Stadium development was an intrinsic part of the peace funding. The original plan was a shared stadium at the Maze, but that didn't fly so we had the split of the money. The British are currently running the NI budget in the absence of an Assembly and are fully aware of this and the history of it. As pointed out they may renege, they are perfectly capable of doing that, but do not pretend that they would be doing anything other than reneging on the GFA by doing this.

The stand in Páirc Tailteann was built in the 1930s, but it was only in the middle of the 2010s that Meath County board started the process of trying to replace it.

There's no big "Dublin get everything" conspiracy going on here, just plain old incompetence.

The other bid hasn't been withdrawn.

The planning is fully approved now, the appeal against the planning approval has failed and the planning approval can no longer be appealed against, they can now start building once they award the tender (a process which does not involve NI politics) but just take for a second if they dropped casement and said they weren't going to fund the redevelopment of it. Firstly the nationalist community and political parties would be outraged that the third main NI stadium (of which is dedicated to Gaelic Games) that's been promised for over a decade as part of a NI Executive government three stadia programme isn't being built while the other stadia for (the traditionally protestant / unionist leaning) sports of rugby and soccer have been built and majority funded by the taxpayer. Especially in the context of the historic discrimination and inequalities the nationalist community have faced historically.

Secondly the unionist community would be outraged that they're not being treated as equals to Scotland, Wales and England and that the republic of Ireland is being included whilst NI is being excluded, it simply wouldn't fly, especially when in the bid documents the ni soccer player (might be the captain..?) have been included front and centre alongside their UK and RoI counterparts.

It simply wouldn't fly.

Plus UEFA would be asking why have they changed from their submitted bid to only being two/three/four of the five nations they've mentioned and plastered all over the bid documents.

Again, it simply wouldn't fly, in this case with UEFA.

UEFA are not exactly inundated with bids. They will huff and puff maybe but accept it.

See what you are saying about the British but they are currently a law onto themselves and are cutting budgets to NI and taking money intended for cost of living aid and using it to pay back the NI overspend.

Not much by way of caring there.

I think you have more faith in the British Government than the British People

I know some rugby grounds are not that great but GAA stadia are absolute kips by international standards so I don't see Ulster using Clones over Dublin. Especially seeing as Clones is probably more alien to an Ulster rugby fan than South Dublin is.

Those other counties won't get much more than a friendly.