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

[Armagh18]

See it's no big surprise to us up here who have seen this behaviour all our lives and TBH we'd be shocked to see anything other than their hatred of anything Catholic/GAA/Nationalist/Republican blah blah. They can't hide it and never could but we are used to it. A few of our Southern Brethren can see it now but are probably not that bothered like the rest of the UK, all you have to look at is the abuse Irish players have received playing in England and Scotland because they're Catholic. If that abuse was about skin colour there'd be uproar but it's only Irish Catholic so move along there and sweep it under the carpet.
Anyway rant over and back to Casement...the ground will be full if it ever happens but I can tell you now for certain it will be full from others as the die hard NI supporters will not go to that venue. That's a fact...

They'll either boycott it, or more likely turn up and try to wreck the GAA's shiny new stadium. I'm sure theres plenty of sensible people in the north who'll go and support their team and not care about a stadium, but the wee billies will try and make a scene.

[general_lee]

Best thing to do is just kill them with kindness. In all honesty if NI did get automatic qualification I'd be more than happy to see them play in Casement, GSTK wouldn't bother me either. There's a lot of hardliners in their support that will boycott anyway - I doubt any of us will lose sleep over it. It will be strange though for NI matches (and any other big games) where will they drink or what bars will they go to beforehand? I doubt the locals in Biddy's will be too pleased to see their local taken over by the GAWA 

[Jim_Murphy_74]

OWC caving 4-O tonight. They are not going to fill out Casement on that form.

/Jim.

[clarshack]

OWC caving 4-O tonight. They are not going to fill out Casement on that form.

/Jim.

An ex Celtic player scoring against them will wind them up a bit too.

[clarshack]

Watching the Arva/Lisnaskea game and Clones looks like it has decayed even more than from this time last year. It's embarrassing actually.
Just get Casement built asap please.

[intheknowhow]

Watching the Arva/Lisnaskea game and Clones looks like it has decayed even more than from this time last year. It's embarrassing actually.
Just get Casement built asap please.

What good would that do? Every pitch is the same in November..

Is this Stephen McGee Han's account?lol

[dec]

Article in the Athletic about Casement

https://theathletic.com/5073655/2023/11/20/casement-windsor-euro2028-belfast/

[Saffrongael]

https://ulster.gaa.ie/2023/11/ulster-gaa-statement-on-casement-park-project/

Heron Bros not proceeding as contractor 

[tbrick18]

https://ulster.gaa.ie/2023/11/ulster-gaa-statement-on-casement-park-project/

Heron Bros not proceeding as contractor 

Sounds like it has to go out to procurement again given the new costs and passage of time.
Herons might still get the contract but will probably have to re-tender.
Probably a delay that they hadn't anticipated.

[trailer]

How long would a retender take?

[clonian]

How long would a retender take?

Depends on whether the design has changed. They could issue tender documents with a qualification document along with it instead of getting a short list first - that might save 6 weeks. For a project that size you'd need at least 6-8 weeks to price it. Same again to assess it and award it.

[tbrick18]

How long would a retender take?

Depends on whether the design has changed. They could issue tender documents with a qualification document along with it instead of getting a short list first - that might save 6 weeks. For a project that size you'd need at least 6-8 weeks to price it. Same again to assess it and award it.

Add in a couple of weeks for downtime over christmas too. 4-6 months maybe before it can be awarded I'd guess.

[marty34]

How long would a retender take?

Depends on whether the design has changed. They could issue tender documents with a qualification document along with it instead of getting a short list first - that might save 6 weeks. For a project that size you'd need at least 6-8 weeks to price it. Same again to assess it and award it.

Add in a couple of weeks for downtime over christmas too. 4-6 months maybe before it can be awarded I'd guess.

Still time but they wouldn't want many more setbacks from the point of the tighter timeframe.

I presume there's no Irish outfit that would do this job.

[Armagh18]

Might we see the fleg protest brigade rock up outside casement?

[Milltown Row2]

Might we see the fleg protest brigade rock up outside casement?

Was chatting to a GAA man today about this... oh how we laughed.. hopefully Jamie is there on his wheely bin