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I'm a bit lost in this Casement Park debacle.

The GAA are paying £15m toward a £300m Stadium.

Soccer will be played there in the Euros.

The GAA then get it all to themselves for Games, Concerts, Conferences, etc

GAA get all the revenue?

Where exactly are you lost?

Where I am lost is that the wider community are paying the Bill for this yet the GAA hold the Keys and reap the profits, while basically getting a new stadium all to themselves.
I thought this stadium was for all the community? That it would be ran by an Independent Management Company.
Sure you cant expect the Soccer or to a lesser extent Rugby to be comfortable under such an arrangement?

Ulster Rugby, IFA got the same deal with no financial contribution. Hampden, Millennium Stadium and Wembley all got loads of public sector funding.

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Mind you Mess It Up and Sweet Sounds of Heaven from the new album really cut the mustard as well

I'm a bit lost in this Casement Park debacle.

The GAA are paying £15m toward a £300m Stadium.

Soccer will be played there in the Euros.

The GAA then get it all to themselves for Games, Concerts, Conferences, etc

GAA get all the revenue?

Where exactly are you lost?

Grim reading on children dying of starvation in what is now a famine in Gaza.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/gaza-israel-palestinians-starvation.html

Plenty of food, Israel isn't letting it in.

Genocide on any level whilst the Western world looks on.

Looks on?? Actively facilitates in many cases

Alright then non lunatic. What's your grand plan? Corrigan Park forever?

Already said it many, many times on the thread. But for your benefit.

- Replace the old main stand with a new one, covered seating. All the facilities they could ever want could be placed underneath this as the new structure could be far more significantly hollowed out relative to old, and the back of it could be extended over the road to add further floor space. No big difference to light on houses to the West of Casement as the existing stand already blocks it.
- Stick a roof over the (renewed) terrace on the far side of the pitch. The back end of this structure can hold the badly needed amenities. It'd be relatively low profile though.
- Renew the terraces at both ends of the pitch. Don't cover them. If there is sufficient demand - as determined by polls, one of the ends could be uncovered seats.

Capacity of 30-40k for the one or two times a year it may be needed - which would be during the summer. Comfortably sufficient covered capacity for during the autumn/winter/spring. 3 or 4 significantly different price tiers.

Basically the stadium that the GAA needs at a cost that will benefit all in the long-run.

Instead we're getting an expensive to build, expensive to maintain milestone, which will come with astronomical ticket prices.


But hey - the Ulster Council might be able to hold a few concerts. That's what this is about right? Otherwise it makes no sense to build what they are trying to build.

Great idea. Windsor all covered all seated, Ravenhill something similar. Casement as suggested above. Croppy lie down

Get the geese out

Steve Wright? This is me again from Purley, Mr Angry!

I said at the time we wouldn't be waiting 70 years for another coronation. I didn't think it would be this quick.

Well in fairness you wouldn't need to be Russell Grant to make a prediction like that given that he was over 74 when he was crowned😂

I agree that Friday is a day for consistency matters, dealing with local correspondence but Saturday is normally the day that they run their constituency surgeries in order to facilitate people who are working

Email or any electronic channels not reached Armagh yet ?

😂In the vast majority of cases people with an issue like to discuss it face to face

I agree that Friday is a day for consistency matters, dealing with local correspondence but Saturday is normally the day that they run their constituency surgeries in order to facilitate people who are working

Ian Lavender, last remaining member of the original Dad's Army cast aged 77

Idiotic by McNulty.  First day back at Stormont and the SDLP lose an MLA and a UUP MLA has a go at party colleague Robin Swann!

Who had a go at Swann?

Regardless of what's going on in Stormont, Saturday should normally be the busiest day of the week for a Parliamentarian as that's the day they deal with constituency matters. I was in Newry last Saturday and his office was closed. Not a good message for his constituents

Does Mickey Brady open on a Saturday?

Absolutely. The SF constituency office is a hive of activity on a Saturday

Regardless of what's going on in Stormont, Saturday should normally be the busiest day of the week for a Parliamentarian as that's the day they deal with constituency matters. I was in Newry last Saturday and his office was closed. Not a good message for his constituents

Any word on whether the Laois manager will be on the sideline this evening?

I took a little detour to see if Justy McNulty was at home but he wasn't. Mind you there was no indication as to whether he had headed North or South