Can't see Ravenhill being keen. The soccer fans were happy with no games over building Casement and I can't see the rugby crowd being any less sectarian.
i think the Rugby lads are more interested on Euros & Sterling
Maybe the new variety of rugby fan that is provence/Ireland only but I have met enough AIL blazers to convince me otherwise. Not sure who gets to make the decision though in regards to rugby stadiums. Not sure the residents will be too keen either.
Don't see it happening regardless.
NFL American football in Croke Park confirmed.
I'de say there will be serious money to be made out of that.
I can't see Croke Park earning any more from it than a soccer or rugby game really.
They economy is the winner, plus Croke Park gets.a much wider audience. I assume fans will be allowed to drink in seats while watching American football as well (unlike the GAA fans)
Let them have their drinks, but I'd hate to see it for GAA matches. All reports from the rugby games in the Aviva are that it is painful watching games with a constant stream of people going in and out to get pints and go to the toilet. I read one piece where a guy with his elderly father counted it at a gsme in November. They had to stand up and sit down over 80 times to let people pass as they were sat besidr the aisle.
Thomond Park is the same for the evening games. People only there for the party and it really puts me off going.
Id hate to sit through four hours of watching that muck without a drink
i seen during the week Jarlath Burns was saying they have estamites of casement costing around the 300 million euro mark. At that price i dont think they slimmed it down to much. He also noted the issue with the planning if they do not start soon.
Clare are the latest county to sell naming rights to their county ground. It might be the most cumbersome one so far.
Zimmer Biomet Páirc Chíosóg.
*Yes that is a picture of the wrong Cusack Park on the Irish Times.
How have the GAA ended up with another newbridge.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0306/1500671-ulster-gaa-switch-antrim-v-armagh-game-to-down/
Antrim need to be realistic here. Corrigan Park is a glorified club ground.
Antrim gave their grounds to ulster to develop and they made a balls of it. Now ulster are punishing antrim for having no ground.
Some neck on them.
Why? They have a ground they want to play in that meets health and safety standards.
Why should they move just to accommodate fans of other teams and inconvenience their own fans.
Any field can meet health and safety standards.
The championship should have actual standards. Every credible sporting organisation has similar rules.
But this is the source of the whole problem with the GAA there is no standards for stadiums. They need to come out and say what is the minmum Number of covered seats and overall capacity required for championship games.
Majority of Gaa stadiums are a shambles.Bit if a stand here and another half covered across the way.
Has the capacity od McHale Park gone back up as they said there was 27k at rugby yesterday.
27800.
Still room for another 7k or 8k like Galway game in 2018
Great to be in such a big crowd there,savage atmosphere.
A shambles compared to what? The GAA has the best network of stadiums in Ireland. For a small populatuon and an amateur organisation the association has done quite well.
I was surprised that morenthan 25k was allowed in. It can hold 35k+ but fire and access /exit regulations have greatly reduced it.
whats mayos long term plan for McHale park are they going to buckseat all off it?
Heavily in debt so any major work is unlikely. They did add some bucket seats at press box side so it would be good if they continued to do more of that.
Those seats were taken out of main stand in 2010 because they needed to make space for walkways,another design flaw of the stand.
Didn't know that. At least they reused them. So many design flaws in a very expensive stand.
Gaa have lot of stadiums but how many better than the 4 rugby provinces.
Gaa has done ok but many stadiums are vwry poor in a modern sense.
The support poles are just terrible for a stand built in the last 20 years, surely can't have been much more to have a fully cantilevered design?
Any reason why the seats are blue too? Always seemed an odd choice for Mayo.
The 2 poles close together in the centre in particular are terrible. Whoever signed that design off has a lot to answer for, especially given the cost of it. The other poles are not so bad.
County Chairman Liam Moffatt tightened up a lot of the tendering processes at county board level during his tenure. But the stand was built by then and a lot of people would regard the procedures and transparency back then as questionable to say the least.
I can't remember exactly why the seats are blue. Not sure if they got them cheap at the time or second hand from another stadium somewhere.
For a long time I thought it was just a refurbishment due to how old and basic the design looks.
Just over 55k was at croke park yesterday would Lenister/IRFU lost out by not using the aviva? Did the expect to sell out croke park?
