An Irish National Stadium!
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Building work on the new stadium isn’t expected to begin until 2006, after the WC qualifiers are over. I suppose they’re hoping that the GAA will finally see sense by then and recognise that they can’t keep wasting an asset like Croke Park the way they’ve been doing and let FAI/IRFU rent it until Lansdowne is built.
I beginning to doubt that fast track legislation gets passed at all, which is a great shame. Apparently there’s a lot of opposition to it even from within the cabinet. I’ve read somewhere that Kapitan McDowell is dead set against it because he’s afraid they’ll fast track an incinerator in his constituency (or something like that).
I wonder could the Americans be persuaded to blast the PDs into space as part of their Mars exploration programme? McDowell could argue points of law without actually doing anything all he wants with the rocks up there.
I still can’t believe the decision’s been made!
On Prime Time last night – a whopping €18 million was spent on feasability studies for Abbotstown – €18 million!😡
That is only 285.7143 times the An Taisce grant that was cut due to ‘cutbacks’.
Who Maghahy & Co?
Is JP McManus going to fork out his portion of the wasted expenditure on the Stadium I wonder?
It never was going to get a go ahead, because it was to be put in the wrong place.
Jim McDaid lasted about 1 day in Reynolds first government, that says a lot.
Berites dream has crashed and we’ve paid for it, not guys like McManus who are shrewd enough to qualify all offers they make with clauses that protect them from the clowns we continue to elect.
Hello, a roundabout in Blanchardstown for a National Stadium. I am going to start a new thread Irelands ten worst roundabouts.
hey, if we are having sports facilities out at abbotstown do you think we can have a new race course to replace the much missed phoenix park race course. leopardstown and punchestown are much too far away.
well it’s crazy that a country as keen on horseracing as this one doesn’t have a proper metropolitian racecourse.
btw apologise to fairyhouse, if punchestown is included in the dublin area, then so should fairyhouse.
Maghahy & Co were the key people who recieved and channelled the incredible amounts of money spent on the feasability studies. The deal, which was as a percentage of the expected cost of the facility has been the subject of an investigation by the Dail Public Accounts Committee. Paddy Teahon (ex civil servant) was involved in heading up the Campus board and Magahy were previously involved in Temple Bar Properties during the development of Temple Bar.
Dubs show such resentment to those “from the country” but yet things that are in the “country” are classed as in the Dublin area when it suits. Punchestown, along with Naas and the Curragh racecourses are in Kildare, Fairyhouse is in Meath. While they are accessible from Dublin they are not “in the area”. Get over it, Leopardstown is grand
what are you on about niall, when i said dublin area i meant accessible from dublin but, and this is my point, not in dublin. there is a big horse racing community here in dublin and certainly enough to support a metropolitain racetrack, leopardstown is a nice racecourse, but it is at the very edge of city and hard to get to, certainly you wouldn’t go there from the city centre for an evening meet, this might improve if the luas is extended. anyway, horse racing as a spectator sport is not a country persuit and, anyway, in ireland, these days, a division between country people and city people is artificial.
ah I was takin the piss a bit. I’m from a large town about 45km from Dublin. However so many Dublin people think that life stops when you go beyond the M50 and that everyone is an “inbred culchie” if your not from the city. Like because I’m not from the city its nearly assumed I live on a farm and spend my saturdays servicing my septic tank!!!
Anyway indeed with the completion of luas and the M50 hopefully access to Leopardstown will be better. I’d love to see another racecourse in the city as a big horseracing fan myself.
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