GAA Infastructure

Unless the sole criteria is "What people in Cork want", there is absolutely 0% chance of Páirc Uí Chaoimh being chosen to host games at EURO 2028.

PuC is a solid GAA stadium, but its absolutely not up to hosting a Euros game.

PUC looked decent with a soccer pitch

There are way worse stadiums in soccer in that regard.

Outside of obvious things like having to sort out the terraces many GAA stadia fall way behind in corporate facilities and more importantly security infrastructure around the stadium. Another issue is the need to put in whole new levels of media facilities and seating.

PuC would do absolutely fine as a stadium in a top soccer league (it's better than some Premier League grounds) but it's not going to impress UEFA who get to pick from the best of the best for these tournaments. And by 2028 that standard will only have risen again.

Not easy with an already tiny land locked stadium.

The GAA will just have to get the fuk over it and certain GAA fans stop playing the victim like with Tallaght . Loads of "community" places are only built for certain things.

British Ambassador on Drivetime didn't seem to see any problems with Casement being built.

I agree on shared stadiums but not Dalymount as was suggested by another poster.

Shared stadiums also only work in areas where the teams have very similar attendances which is rare in Ireland.

Ide say he knows about as much as us to be honest.

I wouldn't agree about just closing parts of the stadium. I regularly go to football in the Gaelic Grounds or club hurling and it's not great. Limerick FC in Thomond Park sucked too.

It's fine when necessary but I would want my club signing up for that full time.

There are definitely some good cases for joining up. Parnell Park could be replaced as Dublin's "home" ground and have them go in with a LOI team and or Leinster.

Musgrave Park, Parc I Rinn and Turner's Cross are all very similar grounds that could be one good one.

It doesn't work in Limerick where all 3 are at very different levels.

I think it's very much case by case.

Problem is 99% of the time it will be the GAA that need the bigger capacity.

BC stadium Canadian Football stadium has a tarp roof that covers the top tier for soccer matches which could be a thing.

Thats fair and I would agree there is no one size fits all solution. Overall though I favour and think it would be in everyone's best interest to have combined municipal stadiums as much as possible.

Having a stadium that Dublin GAA and Leinster could play in plus maybe a LOI team (St Pats) maybe is a good shout.

Multiuse municipal stadiums in Ireland are pretty much a fantasy. Too much political wranglings and lack of cooperation between the main sports organisations in this country. Plus finances would always be a problem as the government would need to pretty much fully fund multiple stadiums around the country. Not going to happen.

Thats the other thing. The idea only works if all involved parties are in desperate need of a new stadium which is what scuppered the national stadium in the 80s

As well as demographics

Where joined up thinking is really lacking is club level. You will have one sports club with full changing rooms and another across the road togging out in their cars.

Or 2 clubs paying maintenance and insurance on 2 sets of facilities in the same suburb or village.

Would be nice to see the government set up smaller regional versions of sports campus Ireland. Provide offices, storage and changing facilities for some of the really sh@t on sports in Ireland.