Casement Park in line for major overhaul - 40,000 all seater Stadium.

[BennyCake]

An ulster semi or final is handy for Armagh, Down, Derry folk but I think it's unfair having the likes of fans coming from Killybegs or Cavan having to travel to Belfast for such games.

[ONeill]

Can they not build it around the back of the Andersonstown Leisure Centre?

[Milltown Row2]

An ulster semi or final is handy for Armagh, Down, Derry folk but I think it's unfair having the likes of fans coming from Killybegs or Cavan having to travel to Belfast for such games.

Shit for Derry fans heading to Clones also.......

[muppet]

Can they not build it around the back of the Andersonstown Leisure Centre?

Or shift it all to Corrigan Park?

[BennyCake]

An ulster semi or final is handy for Armagh, Down, Derry folk but I think it's unfair having the likes of fans coming from Killybegs or Cavan having to travel to Belfast for such games.

Shit for Derry fans heading to Clones also.......

It's shit for everyone going to Clones!

[armaghniac]

An ulster semi or final is handy for Armagh, Down, Derry folk but I think it's unfair having the likes of fans coming from Killybegs or Cavan having to travel to Belfast for such games.

Shit for Derry fans heading to Clones also.......

There is empirical evidence of Derry fans not travelling in large numbers to Clones, but there is evidence of large numbers not travelling anywhere. Nevertheless, Killybegs to Belfast is half as far again as Limavady to Clones.

[Saffrongael]

Planning permission denied

[bannside]

What now?

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Denied, very surprised by the decision. Looks like Andytown is getting a big Tescos

[stiffler]

What's plan b for Antrim then ?

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Wow between this and the Maze 11-12 years have passed and Ulster GAA have feck all to show for it

[sheamy]

What now?

they'll have to change the design. the planning approval was deemed unlawful but not quashed.

[illdecide]

Casement Park redevelopment: Minister acted unlawfully by granting approvalBreaking news
Northern Ireland's environment minister acted unlawfully in approving a new GAA stadium in west Belfast, a High Court judge has ruled.

Planning permission for the 38,000-seater stadium was granted by Mark H Durkan in December 2013.

Local residents who objected to the size of the planned development launched a legal challenge in response.

Mr Justice Horner held the decision making process around the decision was "fundamentally flawed".

He identified failures in the environmental impact assessment of the increased facilities and an unrealistic reliance by the Department of the Environment (DoE) on an existing 32,600 capacity as a baseline for the project.

With far fewer spectators normally attending matches at the current ground, the judge also found that the effect of bigger crowds on the surrounding roads network had not been properly examined.

However, he did not quash the minister's decision.

Instead, lawyers for the DoE, the GAA and a residents group who mounted the legal challenge are to make further submissions on appropriate remedies.

Local residents claimed the proposed £76m stadium would be too big for the area.

The GAA's provincial body, the Ulster Council, said a 38,000 capacity was needed for the staging of Ulster Senior football finals and All-Ireland quarter-finals.

The redevelopment of Casement Park is part of the government's policy to upgrade the three major sports grounds in Belfast - football's Windsor Park, Ulster's rugby ground at Ravenhill and the Gaelic games stadium at Casement.

Three new stands have been constructed at Ravenhill.

Work on modernising Windsor Park, the home of Irish League club Linfield and the Northern Ireland international team, is ongoing.

[Bingo]

At least they know now they'll get another cut for round bales in the spring.

[OakleafCounty]

In the unlikely event of Derry playing in an Ulster final I prefer Clones over Casement any day! Mark H Durkan, take a bow.