Casement Park watch.

No chance that the stadium will be done for the euros. The cross community goodwill simply isn't there. There ll be a stadium built but it won't be available for the Euros. Most Northern Irish football fans want nothing to do with it.

And there's Northern Irelands problem in a nutshell. One side always looking for one upmanship over the other.

It's really bizarre that a derelict GAA stadium was chosen for Euro 2028.

I assume that at some point around 2027, Belfast will be replaced as a host city by an extra city in England or Scotland who have a stadium ready to go.

Waste of money for another white elephant.

Any links to that Maigh Eo?

Cheers for that.

Hard to know what to make of that. I can't see them not funding, but who knows with the Tories.

Maybe, but unlike Supervalue Pairc the new stadium in Casement is being guaranteed ulster finals whereas in cork they weren’t even guaranteed a football or hurling championship game from one year to the next let alone a final when it was built

I see your point but it doesn't justify the spend especially with the new format making the Provincial championships less meaningful and who knows what will happy with them in future.

It's also feck all use for Nuetral Championship games unless it's two Ulster teams playing. Cork has this issue also both are isolated from rest off the Country.

The planned park and ride is about a mile away from casement, in the old days I have parked down where the park and ride is and walked up, the flip side I have been to a concert in boucher and the walked down, its not too bad a walk.

The British government literally just handed over GBP 3.3 BILLION to encourage the MLAs to get back to work.

50 million or so is small beer

+1. And the new GAA president did the Campaign for a new Stadium at Casement serious damage during the week, by saying the GAA will only cough up 15 million of that.

That's what will happen. There will be a stadium of some description.

They should forget about casement for the Euros.

The additional infrastructure required for eufa compliance is light years away from the needs of a Gaa stadium. They need bigger reporter areas, corporate areas, food differences ETC. Once the euros are over it won't be used to that level again. Waste of money.

Give the euros to another GB city. Build a stadium suitable to GAA.

Thats not really an update. The costs have gone through the roof and the British taxpayer can't be expected to fund the vast majority of it. I think the Irish government if it was serious could have offered a 100million of the 300 predicted and the UK government 150 with the GAA contribution upped to 50. None of that will happen now anyway.

Just an aside , iv been living in the UK a decade now and contrary to the propaganda the regular British person values Northern Ireland and knows just as much about it as my neighbours in Clare and Limerick back home. It's a myth that they don't care about Northern Ireland and indeed Ireland as a whole...shur so many of the British have Irish connections. I vote Conservative and there's aload of Irish in the local branch aswell...another myth busted.

Yes I live in Great Britain . Thats also the UK so saying I live in the UK is correct also. Like people in Scotland ,England and Northern Ireland can say they live in the UK.

My friends and I would like Scotland to remain in the UK. I think that's fairly secure at the moment after the SNP implosion and the controversy that resulted in Sturgeon resigning. Northern Ireland is fairly secure in the Union aswell by the looks of it but things up there are really improving politically. I'd like to see Casement being built but like a poster pointed out, it's in a very Republican area and it's not really a GAA city to top it all off. Might be better for everyone if a smaller stadium does get built and the GAA do up Clones .

Well equally you couldn't have Scotland ,England and Wales and leave one of the UK nations ie.Northern Ireland out.

Take the €15million, try to get another €5 of the government, maybe €5 of the assembly and build a nice 7.5k capacity stadium to a really good standard with a Croke Park level pitch then move on. All this boll0x talk of euros and 34k stadiums for a geographical area with limited use for neutral games and 2 low attendance teams is absolute guff of the highest order. Just highlights everything wrong with this country.

If the majority of NI supporters don't want casement getting the money and won't set foot in the place then they can go to the 'mainland' to watch the game and funding can be given for a more suitable stadium at a reduced spec.

Yeh, you easily could. These were the venues chosen for soccer at the Olympic Games 2012

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Old Trafford, Manchester

City of Coventry Stadium, Coventry

St James' Park, Newcastle

Wembley Stadium, London

If you look at it though, the 'squabbling' emanates from one quarter. Everyone was in favour of the Maze but..........

Everyone but that quarter is for Casement and the obvious benefits for all.

This isn't what happened.

A 'Centre For Conflict Transformation' was proposed for the site from the get-go when Edwin Poots was in favour of the project. His party where divided on it though.

Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson actually agreed on plans for that 'centre' and it was the objections of the Orange Order that turned the tide and it was Sports Minister Gregory Campbell who ruled out the project in favour of separate stadiums for Rugby, Soccer and Gaelic games.

I think you are misunderstanding how much of a GAA city Belfast is, there are clubs in all sections of the City including loyalist East Belfast. There are 28 GAA clubs at senior level in Belfast alone (possibly more). The nationwide Lads and Dads hurling program was started in Belfast. So you cant say that Belfast is not a GAA city. The GAA has probably the highest playing numbers of any Sport in Belfast.

No one is discussing the economic impact this stadium could have in Belfast, We don't have a venue big enough to attract big concerts, finals of major European football tournaments. Casement park will allow that really the cost is going to come back into the economy, local workers getting paid. Local companies providing the building materials.

There are thousands of children who have never had the opportunity to set foot inside Casement never mind play on the ground for their schools or clubs.

If this was Windsor Park there would be no complaints from the Unionist parties or the people who vote for them. There is one reason for the outrage and that is pure sectarianism.