Can The Aviva be completed/made bigger?

Bitored wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: It more or less is. The supposed "Joint Ownership" is only for 50 years then it reverts to the full ownership of the IRFU What? Why would the FAI put themselves 50million in the hole? They'll just about have paid off the debt when the IRFU get it back

Can't see it being too high on the priorities list, the money would be better off being invested elsewhere in Irish football, plenty of infrastructure in dire need of it! 

Bitored wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: It more or less is. The supposed "Joint Ownership" is only for 50 years then it reverts to the full ownership of the IRFU What? Why would the FAI put themselves 50million in the hole? They'll just about have paid off the debt when the IRFU get it back

What do you reckon the sum total of the rent for the place over 60 years would be? At least when the mortgage is paid in 2020 (I know...) they make money off the place,

eire77 wrote: roverstillidie wrote: So people who own their apartments don't actually own them as there is a finite lifespan? Correct. Long leases. Usually 99 years and the management company are transferred ownership of the land, structure and common areas upon completion / disposal of all units within the development. However people who "purchase" the apartments usually become shareholders in the management company. This didn't always happen though particularly when developers went bust before developments were complete / sold.

Correct. But its still their apartment and they have ownership rights etc.

Trap junior wrote: Its too big for football.  I would have preferred a 35,000 stadium that we could fill every game. Wales are playing their games in Cardiff City's ground and it has helped them rather than playing in a vast empty Millenium Stadium.

there must have been a novelty factor for watching soccer in croke park,

Trap junior wrote: Its too big for football.  I would have preferred a 35,000 stadium that we could fill every game. Wales are playing their games in Cardiff City's ground and it has helped them rather than playing in a vast empty Millenium Stadium.

Would love to have a stadium like the millennium alright. By far the nicest I've been too and the best in the world in my opinion,, The fans are right in on top of the pitch

Edited by Stonesy114 - 21 Oct 2015 at 7:32pm

Makes you a bit sick when you see the millennium stadium was built for 125m pounds and is an awesome stadium with huge capacity and retractable roof whereas landsdowne cost 3 times that and has an unfinished feel about it.

I'm glad we didn't build the Bertie bowl which might have been a nice stadium but it was all purpose so would have been a running track or huge pitch to accomadate GAA, wouldn't have worked.

What probably would have worked best in terms of the stadium itself was Eircom Park. That was going to be a 45,000 seater stadium I think. It was being talked about around the time Wales were building millennium stadium and if I rmemeber the cost was not so high. They'd be no doubt be making money off it now anyway! What was the main reason it fell through?