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

[RedHand88]

From a letter in the Newsletter

I would go further and say it will will cause serious traffic delays throughout Belfast, and even impact on commuters trying to leave Belfast to get home from work.

There will be major delays on the Westlink and the two motorways. It will be even worse when accidents occur; who is going to say there will not be accidents?

So there you go. Everyone just stay at home all of the time for fear of causing traffic or an accident.

[Milltown Row2]

From a letter in the Newsletter

I would go further and say it will will cause serious traffic delays throughout Belfast, and even impact on commuters trying to leave Belfast to get home from work.

There will be major delays on the Westlink and the two motorways. It will be even worse when accidents occur; who is going to say there will not be accidents?

So there you go. Everyone just stay at home all of the time for fear of causing traffic or an accident.

What header put pen to paper on that one?

[RedHand88]

From a letter in the Newsletter

I would go further and say it will will cause serious traffic delays throughout Belfast, and even impact on commuters trying to leave Belfast to get home from work.

There will be major delays on the Westlink and the two motorways. It will be even worse when accidents occur; who is going to say there will not be accidents?

So there you go. Everyone just stay at home all of the time for fear of causing traffic or an accident.

What header put pen to paper on that one?

Billy Dickson, local unionist community representative. He had an issue with dual signage around the Olympia leisure centre recently too.

[AustinPowers]

I honestly don't think it will be built in time.

Ack 2 years put a quare hole in it.

Like I said, it's not getting built in time.

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2023/10/11/news/jeffrey_donaldson_says_dup_may_seek_to_veto_extra_casement_park_cash-3691238/?param=ds441rif44T

Part of me hopes he's successful. I don't think he will be, he nor his party won't stop it. But they're so f**king mind-numbingly stupid to see how counterproductive a stance like this is.

Can you imagine OWC out of the bid and having croke or pairc UI chaoimh being used instead and NI missing the party. Has a party ever had so little strategy or forward thinking ever

I wonder what the contingency is if Casement falls through. Northern Ireland is due to get 5 games according to the media. I'd say the likeliest scenario is the the 5 games allocated to Northern Ireland would be split amongst Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. Would seem easiest in terms of logistics/crowds/timing etc.

If Casement didn't happen because (or partly because) of the DUP, and  matches pencilled in for NI moved  to Britain, the DUP would  then  complain that NI  was being treated  differently  from the "rest of the UK".

[general_lee]

I honestly don't think it will be built in time.

Ack 2 years put a quare hole in it.

Like I said, it's not getting built in time.

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2023/10/11/news/jeffrey_donaldson_says_dup_may_seek_to_veto_extra_casement_park_cash-3691238/?param=ds441rif44T

Part of me hopes he's successful. I don't think he will be, he nor his party won't stop it. But they're so f**king mind-numbingly stupid to see how counterproductive a stance like this is.

Can you imagine OWC out of the bid and having croke or pairc UI chaoimh being used instead and NI missing the party. Has a party ever had so little strategy or forward thinking ever

I wonder what the contingency is if Casement falls through. Northern Ireland is due to get 5 games according to the media. I'd say the likeliest scenario is the the 5 games allocated to Northern Ireland would be split amongst Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. Would seem easiest in terms of logistics/crowds/timing etc.

If Casement didn't happen because (or partly because) of the DUP, and  matches pencilled in for NI moved  to Britain, the DUP would  then  complain that NI  was being treated  differently  from the "rest of the UK".

I thought the whole point of the SOS basically saying it would definitely go ahead was a big "f**k you" to the DUP for not playing ball.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-65637275.amp

[weareros]

I see they are rolling out Kate Hoey on The View tonight to have a good old whinge about it. Expect more dirty play.

[Wildweasel74]

Not get some leading GAA figure on it, to put up their side. Knowing Cahir played for, Drum, I expect him to turn round and pole axe David Jeffery lol

[Wildweasel74]

A sport which is not football!! Tuh Tuh Tuh?

[armaghniac]

General agreement that the Freestate taxpayer spending a load of money is a good idea.

[Wildweasel74]

I love to know where they think the GAA has all the money, outside of paying managers/trainers 95% of the organisation is still amateur. They wouldn't have much more money to throw at this.

[NotedObserver]

Embarrassing on the view from Jeffrey and hoey

[square_ball]

Didn't realise Kate Hoey was so concerned about grassroots football in NI.

[clarshack]

Embarrassing on the view from Jeffrey and hoey

What did they say?

[Eire90]

if casement park  is not built then republic should get a 2nd venue would that make the dup wise up  pairc Chaoimh   should be put on stand by or give aviva more games. dup should be warned  its casement or republic does the dup want to help the republic economy.

[JimStynes]

Embarrassing on the view from Jeffrey and hoey

I don't think Big Davy's view is embarrassing at all. Much be pretty hard to take though. The biggest tournament to ever come here and they're looking to build a stadium that'll suit the GAA once the tournament is long gone. We would do serious complaining if it was the other way as well.