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    Posted: 21 Feb 2024 at 6:36pm
If the cost from the original signed off commitments has increased by say 50 % ?  then all stakeholders need to increase their contribution by 50% and that includes the GAA 

Personally it’s a steal for the  GAA  and the money could be better spent but thems the breaks 

It not either governments fault it got bogged down in planning 
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Originally posted by Het-field Het-field wrote:

Originally posted by Saint Tom Saint Tom wrote:

Repeats again. This fund was part of the agreement to restore Stormont.

Targeting the spend at projects that benefit the South and Southern interests as much as possible is making best use of that.

Pardon my ignorance, but was it ringfenced for Casement? If so the debate is pointless.

No. But I imagine there was some realpolitik about what it was seen to be used for and A "green" project that delivers the euros and a gaa ground in Belfast, plus a road that will be huge for Donegal are advantageous.

Plus, it pulls the rug from under the DUP by making Casement very likely to happen. They love nothing more than to take every opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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Originally posted by EdisonCavani EdisonCavani wrote:

Spending £220 million at the most recent estimate on a stadium for Ulster and Antrim GAA is madness. The reason it is costing that much is it is being built to UEFA five star standards. All they need is a 35,000 capacity stadium like Clones. They will get that for well under £100 million.

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Originally posted by Saint Tom Saint Tom wrote:

Repeats again. This fund was part of the agreement to restore Stormont.

Targeting the spend at projects that benefit the South and Southern interests as much as possible is making best use of that.

Pardon my ignorance, but was it ringfenced for Casement? If so the debate is pointless.
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Repeats again. This fund was part of the agreement to restore Stormont.

Targeting the spend at projects that benefit the South and Southern interests as much as possible is making best use of that.
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Originally posted by The O'Shea The O'Shea wrote:

Originally posted by Green Man Green Man wrote:

50 million quid is not nothing. And it's certainly not that beneficial to anyone outside Belfast/Antrim nevermind in the Republic. 

Our health service and housing availability are falling apart. Look at the state of Limerick Hospital, scary stuff I'm sure a chunk of money could surely turn that hospital into a functioning first world country one instead of what is currently happening by all reports. 

In the context of a country with revenues of circa 10 billion a year, committing 50 million to a multi-year project is peanuts. I hate how tribal fans of Irish sport are, anything GAA related is b*tched about by football fans and vice versa. It's a weird situation when you have Irish football people fanboying over Loyalist objections to investment in Irish sport, I'd go as far as to say it's embarrassing.

I think people can ask question about expenditure of that magnitude without being clubbed together with people whose concerns may have less to do with sports. It is taxpayers money funding something that is in essence capable of being built without resorting to public funds. I think the state was always going to have to enter the fray, but 50 million is a considerable sum of money for stadium redevelopment for a shared tournament.
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Originally posted by Green Man Green Man wrote:

50 million quid is not nothing. And it's certainly not that beneficial to anyone outside Belfast/Antrim nevermind in the Republic. 

Our health service and housing availability are falling apart. Look at the state of Limerick Hospital, scary stuff I'm sure a chunk of money could surely turn that hospital into a functioning first world country one instead of what is currently happening by all reports. 

In the context of a country with revenues of circa 10 billion a year, committing 50 million to a multi-year project is peanuts. I hate how tribal fans of Irish sport are, anything GAA related is b*tched about by football fans and vice versa. It's a weird situation when you have Irish football people fanboying over Loyalist objections to investment in Irish sport, I'd go as far as to say it's embarrassing.


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50 million quid is not nothing. And it's certainly not that beneficial to anyone outside Belfast/Antrim nevermind in the Republic. 

Our health service and housing availability are falling apart. Look at the state of Limerick Hospital, scary stuff I'm sure a chunk of money could surely turn that hospital into a functioning first world country one instead of what is currently happening by all reports. 
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It will be a white elephant just look at Pairce Ui Caoimh and the attendances Cork footballers get. 

How many times has PUC even been sold out outside a couple of rugby fixtures? GAA attendances are in decline and certainly not anywhere good enough for these stadiums. And I'm a big GAA supporter. Before throwing hundreds of millions away lets see some evidence this stadium will actually sell anywhere close to the tickets/events needed. 

I actually agree with funding the A5 even though the British/NI governments should be funding that, but it's clearly about saving lives on probably the worst road in Ireland. 
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Originally posted by zizu Kilbane zizu Kilbane wrote:

Folks, if we want a united Ireland (and I'd f**king hope most who post on here do) these are the type of projects we need to get behind. 50 mill is steal when stacked up against the children's hospital or the Dublin metro 

Is it worth the trouble/s? 


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Originally posted by zizu Kilbane zizu Kilbane wrote:

Folks, if we want a united Ireland (and I'd f**king hope most who post on here do) these are the type of projects we need to get behind. 50 mill is steal when stacked up against the children's hospital or the Dublin metro 

The North is a massive ball ache for England. I hope it stays that way from a selfish POV.

Apologies to our comrades up North who are hoping for one.
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Originally posted by Mush Cassidys Donkey Mush Cassidys Donkey wrote:

Resubmit the application and take the North out, save the money, invest it into grassroots of Irish football as Duffer said. this will be another white elephant like PUC 


The money would go to another project in the north instead. That's literally how this fund works. 
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Resubmit the application and take the North out, save the money, invest it into grassroots of Irish football as Duffer said. this will be another white elephant like PUC 
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Originally posted by EdisonCavani EdisonCavani wrote:

Spending £220 million at the most recent estimate on a stadium for Ulster and Antrim GAA is madness. The reason it is costing that much is it is being built to UEFA five star standards. All they need is a 35,000 capacity stadium like Clones. They will get that for well under £100 million.

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Originally posted by Wheelo Wheelo wrote:

Originally posted by zizu Kilbane zizu Kilbane wrote:

Folks, if we want a united Ireland (and I'd f**king hope most who post on here do) these are the type of projects we need to get behind. 50 mill is steal when stacked up against the children's hospital or the Dublin metro 

It’s not a “steal” when it’s 50 million into 1 GAA stadium that will rarely be full, when you compare it to what’s been put into infrastructure for the most participated sport on the island.

The league of Ireland badly needs investment and we’re p!sing away 50 million on 1 GAA stadium in Belfast. Not right (especially considering all the other millions the GAA gets)

However, I take the point that’s it’s good craic seeing the unionists wound up. But it’s a very expensive joke isn’t it!

I think The Irish government are going to ramp up significantly their funding of infrastructure north of the border over the next 2 decades. This makes sense in the context of most recent poll showing a majority under 45 want unity on the island. That realistically puts a border poll on the table in the next 15-20 years. In that context, £50million for Casement makes sense.

They absolutely should be better funding football infrastructure here as well, that's obvious. But trying to equate the two is wrong. Football isn't get it's correct quota of funding because the government have given £50 million to the GAA on the north, as part of €800 million they had already ringfenced for Northern infrastructure projects 
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Spending £220 million at the most recent estimate on a stadium for Ulster and Antrim GAA is madness. The reason it is costing that much is it is being built to UEFA five star standards. All they need is a 35,000 capacity stadium like Clones. They will get that for well under £100 million.
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