An Irish National Stadium!
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i don’t get your point about the gaa, the gaa sports are played to a very high level and involve all the things you say: switching off the tv, supporting your local team etc.
A bit harsh I think Brian.
I think the GAA has done wonderful things in this country, it has provided community facilities in all 32 counties.
I love the rovers ultras website and the rub they have with the Bohs fans. I agree that league of Ireland needs to be strengthened.
But until the FAI adopt the same bottom up approach as the GAA this will never happen.
I know that there are many excellent amatuer clubs but there is a link missing somewhere.Rugby is unique in that it has many feeder schools that ensure the numbers so it also has an excellent network.
Far from trailor trash the professionals need a stadium that will inspire them.
Dublin cannot support two 80,000-seater stadia. There’s no point. They’ll never both be full at the same time!
Whatever we do now should serve the whole country’s needs for the next 30-50 years, at least. Well within that time scale – in fact, long, long before, certainly before the decade is out – Croke Park will be an ‘open’ venue, purely for financial reasons: it needs to pay its way. It can’t, with its staff, forever stay closed from September to May. Don’t worry, it’ll happen soon enough and without fuss.
Lansdowne Road should be redeveloped as a 40-50,000 stadium – with a pitch big enough, as the IRFU have hinted, to take GAA games. Croke Park is a white elephant for half the summer, when the upper tier can’t be filled. Much better to play the less attractive championship football and hurling fixtures there, when nobody’s playing rugby or soccer. And there’s a guaranteed atmosphere.
You scratch me, I’ll scratch you.
Rugby only needs Croke Park for the England game every second year and whenever the World Cup washes up on these shores. Soccer would only need it for Brazil (once every twenty years) and at most (and only in very good times at that!) twice during the bi-annual qualifying tournaments for UEFA and FIFA championships.
This ain’t rocket science. How come we’re still in remedial class in this subject?
i agree with brian as regards the gaa. and times when both stadiums will be in action is a rarity. and to suggest that we will only fill it when the jaffa’s come over or when brazil come is i think remedial. it may not be full for say against the faroe islands but even then it would be a large crowd ( just to see how many goals we score). nobody knows if it will be full because nobody can look into the future that’s why i suggested build 60,000 with the option for 20,000 more.
It’s a definite improvement. How long will translucent roof last I wonder.
Don’t think there’s any room for expansion at the ends.
verrrry clever design – it’s quite high in the middle, and dips right down to almost bungalow height at the goal ends. Therefore preempting alot of objections from the nearby houses. read the story on http://www.rte.ie/news … no planned disruptions to the DART!!! well seeing as it doesn’t run through there for the next 18 months on weekends anyway!!!
The new landsdowne Looks really good I think. Arup did an excellent job in eliminating potential planning problems.
The only decision is do the government cough up the €83m they are asked for or give the Abbotstown lands to a developer buddy. The lands are conservatively worth more than €83m at Abbotstown.
They should go with this and sell the Abbotstown lands on the open market to pay for it.
More important than capacity this looks the part, and I think it would have the atmosphere of a larger stadium. Old Trafford holds 6000 more than this but looks vastly inferior.
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did arup design it or was there an architect involved? nice stadium. if only we had 10 of them 5 years ago, we could be holding european and world championships. damn you portugal with your efficiency
The picture in the Indo has (c) Arup Sport
The funny thing is that if the GAA stadia are counted we do have a lot of 30,000+ Stadia
I always think of The Gaelic Grounds in Limerick everytime Thomond Park sells out
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