MrO50
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Should the Hill16 end be finished to raise the capacity to 90,000 at an extremely large cost to make the stadium look ‘more balanced’.
Is it not satisfactory to have a stadium with a finished capacity of 82,500. This is more than sufficient for this country, it’s a stadium not a white elephant.
To move the rail line would involve CPO of people’s back gardens on the adjoining roads by Iarnrod Eireann and govt, (to assist the expansion of the stadium to 90k?), and potential overshadowing of houses in the viscinity which I am sure will be very learned of the planning process post Lansdowne Road episode that is now looming.
Croker looks great and its big enough for Gaelic Games. There are very few stadiums larger in all of Europe for conventional field sports. Really to pay for such an expansion would require significant public expensiture which, in my opinion, would be better spent on upgrading Thomond Park and Semple Stadium. 😮“It would great if Cork could host some of the Heineken Cup games, so it would be great to have a multi-purpose sports facility… maybe the GAA should think outside of the box for once and invite IRFU and the FAI into discussions.” and various other threads relating to the redevelopment of Pairc Ui Chaoimh……
Ironic that the GAA is the only one actually leading on this issue at the moment by opening up Croke Park. In Dublin South Dublin Co Co is building a new municipal ‘multi-purpose’ stadium for soccer use (& potentially rugby given the pitch dimensions) but too small for Gaelic Games by order of the Minister for promoting sport and recreation.
The government is also funding the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road to the tune of €191m as a ‘national stadium’ and it now transpires that the ‘value for money’ is less than originally announced in that the new national stadium won’t host Gaelic Games….the national sports…
No objection from FAI or IRFU here!
Looks like the €100m the govt invested in Croke Park was a great deal only €25m per sport (hurling, football, soccer and rugby) with capacity of 82,500 compared to €95.5m per sport with capacity of 55,000.
Need the government to lead with provision of multi use stadium.
