More lolly for the Debt dodging Freeloaders

[Gnevin]

ah true irishmen and they are a great bunch of 'Really' nice guys: here are some classics i found on the net:

Now we are questioning whether they are Irish? And for of all things, being republican?

Tankie, time to change the meds.

Shocking make fun on mental illness

I suggest you up your dosage of ARICEPT

I was hoping I would get away with that one..... 

So you are going to ignore the points I raised and make a cheap joke that I have mental illness.

The paucity of debate on this site has sunk even lower, if that is possible.

So what would be a no comment then, where has your sense of outrage disappeared too?

[blast05]

But the money is going to the Council to assist in building a much needed piece of sporting and social infrastructure in a disadvantaged area.  

Dublinfella, the reality is that the bulk of this money will be spent on concrete and all other raw materials and labour required to complete the infrastructure surrounding the 1-2 acres of green area. In my view, this does not contribute to sporting and social infrastructure.

A simple little stand that could handle a crowd of say 1,000 people ((and a club house with 4 dressing rooms)) with the actual playing area being used by as many underage teams as the playing service allows would be a much greater spend of the money and of much greater benefit to the local community as more of the youth of the area would get to use it.

The bulk of the money being spent on this facility is to create the infrastructure that only the Shamrock Rovers LoI team require and from which there is negligible benefit to the local community. SR providing kids with day trips, school books, software etc is only tokenism.

The total amount of money being spent on the stadium would have been better spent on providing 3 or 4 smaller facilities like i have described and preferably with a running track  .... even if the green are is to only to be used by soccer !! If SR want a stadium then let them build it.

A very similar situation to all of this has occurred in Athlone where a 5,000 approx capacity stadium was built for Athlone Town on donated council land and using all sorts of sports capital grants, lottery grants etc. The average home gate is between about 100 to 500. Meanwhile all other council soccer pitches in the town area are merely plots of lands with goal posts. How much better it would have been to spend the millions it took to build the stadium on all the other council soccer pitches through the town. If Athlone Town wanted a pitch, then let them buy the land and take it from there. Also in Athlone, we have recently had to put up with Athlone GAA club being refused a request put to the council for an otherwise useless 27 yard strip of council land close to Athlone Town soccer stadium to allow them to build a 3rd full size GAA pitch. The request was turned down. Equity