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

[FarneyMan]

Plans in place for the redevelopment of St.Tiernachs Park
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 at 5:35 pm.


Plans are in place for the redevelopment of St. Tiernachs Park in Clones.

It follows a meeting between the Monaghan County Board, St.Tiernachs Park Development committee and members of the Ballybay/Clones Municipal District.

Fine Gael Councillor Hugh McElvaney told Northern Sound News that planning permission for the development and the appointment of an architect where discussed at the meeting.

Councillor McElvaney says no funding is available yet but states it's very important that St.Tiernachs Park is redeveloped.

[DuffleKing]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-33417306

[theskull1]

Whats going on here? That report is too vague.

[tyroneman]

Feck sake windsor park will have been started, fallen down and rebuilt by the time a sod gets turned on casement.

[Hereiam]

This is what politics is all about in the north.
Make sure the Catholics get as little as possible. Always has been and looks like it will never change.

[Clinker]

This is what politics is all about in the north.
Make sure the Catholics get as little as possible. Always has been and looks like it will never change.

The first admission/claim of

A Sectarian Stadium for a Sectarian People (what a circle to turn in such a time scale)



Is there some story going about now that

Crowd Safety is Anti-Catholic/Crowd Safety is Anti-Nationalist/Crowd Safety is Anti-Irish

- insert your own?

[BluestackBoy]

This is what politics is all about in the north.
Make sure the Catholics get as little as possible. Always has been and looks like it will never change.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before this sort of paranoid claptrap got trotted out.

Peace process my backside.

[theskull1]

Whats going on here? That report is too vague.

I'm still lost. Can someone speak clearly about what is going on between the lines?

[Hereiam]

Them'uns  don't want us to have a state of the art stadium in which to play our beautiful sport so they are making it as difficult as possible by throwing every hurdle in its way. One name "Nelson McCausland" Don't need to say anymore.

[Tony Baloney]

Them'uns  don't want us to have a state of the art stadium in which to play our beautiful sport so they are making it as difficult as possible by throwing every hurdle in its way. One name "Nelson McCausland" Don't need to say anymore.

Take the tinfoil hat off and tell us how it is Nelson's fault that Carol is useless and hoped she could ride roughshod over due process and the concerns of the residents.

[Hereiam]

The poor woman is only tryin to do her job. 

[armaghniac]

Carol makes the Antrim football team look effective!

[Applesisapples]

Them'uns  don't want us to have a state of the art stadium in which to play our beautiful sport so they are making it as difficult as possible by throwing every hurdle in its way. One name "Nelson McCausland" Don't need to say anymore.

Take the tinfoil hat off and tell us how it is Nelson's fault that Carol is useless and hoped she could ride roughshod over due process and the concerns of the residents.

Nelsy might have had a point had he not endorsed the 40,000 seater as minister. Carol is as crap as Nelsy. The Kaffilicks have only their own to blame for the mess, Residents/Mark H/Carol.

[cuconnacht]

jaysus lads two thousand posts and still not a sod turned in anger!

[Clinker]

Experts 'abused' over Casement Park

Safety experts were ridiculed and abused when they refused to sign off proposals for a new stadium at Casement Park, a Stormont committee has heard.

Laura Strong, from the Safety Technical Group, said she was left "shaken" after a meeting with the GAA, their English-based design team and government officials in June 2014.

She said: "What we were subjected to was ridicule, abuse, (we) felt patronised and considered that efforts were being made to humiliate us."

Ms Strong was appearing before Stormont's Culture Arts and Leisure s crutiny committee alongside senior safety officer Paul Scott, who previously told MLAs he felt bullied into dropping objections to the new ground.

The 2014 meeting was convened at a south Belfast hotel to discuss emergency evacuation arrangements at the site.

Ms Strong said she was "taken aback" by the tone of the discussion.

"This meeting took on a whole other context," she added. " Health and safety people are not very popular. But, on this occasion I felt that we were being made to feel belittled.

"I certainly, in my career had not experienced a meeting like that in the past.

"This was over and above anything that we should have had to deal with in our role. People were openly laughing at us."

Later, two GAA officials apologised for the behaviour directed towards the safety officers, it was claimed.

MLAs were told the plans did not meet health and safety requirements to evacuate the Andersonstown Road stadium within eight minutes.

Mr Scott said global research has established that crowds start to panic after eight minutes.

He said: "The big fear is panic and crushing. People, after eight minutes, tend to worry and panic therefore there should be appropriate exits for them to leave to a place of relative safety."

Casement Park exits could not cope if there was a capacity crowd, the committee was told.

There could also be further difficulties because the site, which is surrounded by houses, is serviced by only one main arterial route.

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