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I take it all those advocating for this design have no issues with the price of tickets to games. Indeed, have no issues with the price of tickets to games (in casement) jumping.

They'll need to increase to pay for it and without any terracing, there won't be a good spread of ticket price points.

It's a design that is not placing the main user at the centre. It's built for concerts and the odd soccer/rugby game. Bad top level requirements = doomed to failure.

I keep repeating myself but I'll say it again - this is not a design that anyone with the best interests of the GAA in Ulster (and I suppose enough intelligence to look beyond the bling) should be supporting.

Have you planning permission for any of that?

Are you actually hiding behind the decision making prowess of the planning office?

The white elephant rolls on.

Build a new covered stand with seats and executive boxes. Cover the terrace on the far side and fix up the end terracing. Build proper toilets.

Done.

Something that perfectly matches the actual user needs (i.e. something like the Athletic Grounds only bigger capacity). Forget about soccer as they won't be paying to maintain it for 50 years.


A lot of people in here obviously have learned fuk all from Cork.

Looks like Trillick will be the Tyrone team in Ulster


Hold that!

Finished it out. Here's hoping they party like fcuk for a few weeks!

They'll be spent seeing as it's the toughest championship in the northern hemisphere

What one in the Southern hemisphere is tougher? 

Tubridy would have questioned his poppy stance.

Tubridys mother had The Wolfe tones play at a recent family do.

No expenses spared.

hopefully not we dont want club turning into intercounty football with a few teams winning

Aye 'cos Kilcoo (population < 2,000) and Glen (population <10,000) are two obvious behemoths that are dominating their poor wee competitors who have no hope of ever competing against parishes and clubs of that size. 

Its not a parallel with Dublin (having approximately 20% of the island's population).

Never realised there was any of Lough Neagh in Down. Not much of it to be fair.

Its literally a field or two of god's county marching the lough, no more than that.

Zebra mussel major problem.

Yep. Feck all to do with the sand.

Which is probably causing other problems

Probably fair to say that the origin of the fire may not be climate related, but the difficulty in putting the damn thing out most certainly is.

[What a player, probably the best defender I've seen.]

What a player, probably the best defender I've seen.

f**king hell here we go again. The Best Ever. Unrivalled. No Equals.

The important bit of that is underlined ye muppet.

Their opinion based on what they've seen. Not telling you what your GOAT should be.

If an attacking player is in the square with the ball and fist passes to another player who is standing in the square is that a square ball?

No because the ball is already in the square.

[It is aimed at main-line or inter-city services.]

Local commuter rail is not factored in. It is aimed at main-line or inter-city services.
Any commuter rail would be a bonus.

What's the majority of people on these? Leisure travel or business travel?

But in the meantime, until it gets sorted (if ever) what should be done in the meantime to reduce the crashes? As it's not the drivers fault, is there something else that can be used?

Would a significant bulk of the accidents be people pulling out not seeing/realising there was oncoming traffic?

Could probably adopt those automated speed reader things you see in some towns/villages to flash a red beacon back down the road upon detecting oncoming traffic - so the person in the side road knows something is coming.

Suppose another question worth asking is...

If the majority of people on the trains would be commuters, and they are commuting to office jobs (reasonable assumption given tradesmen need a van full of gear) - would much of the benefit be derived by forcing companies* into either letting people work from home, or by having multiple regional offices within easy commute of the employee rather than all centralised to a city or two?

Which coincidentally would also do wonders for the rural economy.


*if big companies expect the govt to support them by providing all the infrastructure to transport their employees to one central very congested hub without a compelling reason (i.e. its a manufacturing site as opposed to the back-offices of a bank), then tax the shite out of them for it.

Link is here:

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/265178/a839ee26-16c4-407d-bd5b-327ce0e067f5.pdf#page=null

(Bit surprised they printed in Times New Roman, do they not know its long since been discarded in favour of more dyslexic friendly fonts like Calibri or Tahoma...!)

This investment would take the best part of 25 years to deliver, which suggests an annual capital spend of the order of € .27/£1.06bn would be required in addition to existing commitments (2021 prices, excl. VAT). Updated cost estimates in 2023 prices are provided in Appendix B. While significant, these costs would represent a similar annual spend as was committed in the middle of the 2000s when Ireland expanded its motorway network, and they would be shared across both jurisdictions

Would the upgraded rail network deliver the same benefits as the motorway network? I wouldn't think so in terms of transport times or cost - it'd only be in terms of carbon footprint - and that's dependent on the govt getting people off the motorways and onto the trains. Would electrifying the motorways so they'd charge electric cars deliver better "carbon" returns on the investment?

(or more to the point, just delivering point charging infrastructure! https://assets.gov.ie/220099/2ee020ea-99a6-439e-851b-48d0b410e746.pdf)

Other references of interest:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/ehighways-could-slash-uk-road-freight-emissions-says-study