Lansdowne Road stadium agreement signed

Lansdowne Road stadium agreement signed


The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O’Donoghue today (Wednesday) signed the formal legal agreement between the Government, the IRFU and FAIreland on the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road Stadium in a significant day in Irish sporting history.

The signing of the agreement means that the associated parties can press ahead with plans to redevelop Lansdowne Road into a state of the art 50,000 all-seater stadium with the expected completion date of December 2008.

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Originally Posted by A face

Lansdowne Road stadium agreement signed

The signing of the agreement means that the associated parties can press ahead with plans to redevelop Lansdowne Road into a state of the art 50,000 all-seater stadium with the expected completion date of December 2008.

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Time to predict the actual completion date & full cost.

I'll go for September 2011 and over budget by 280 mil

Given the way things "work" in this country 2008 sounds optimistic even if they do claim they factored in delays.

If we learnt anything from Luas only when design team been assembled & detailed designs drawn up & tenders can anyone really know how long & how much this will all cost.

hmmm, I'll go for never. Have you seen the "artists interpretation" that was in the paper ? The stadium is smaller in footprint size than the current one. The training pitch is still there, but the stand is inside the railway line, at the moment the stand straddles the tracks. Even if they do start it, how long will there be no trains south of Pearse station (again) ?

Have you ever seen the size of the back pitch at Lansdowne - it's huge, a least two full-size pitches, so the new stadium can afford to encrouch on part of it and still leave room to spare. Also I think they're hoping to buy the strip of land that runs along the Dodder bank. Surely the best option IMO would be to do away with the training ground altogether (the IRFU have a massive training facility in Clondalkin/the FAI use the AUL) as it seems waistful to have so much land given over to just a spare pitch in the most prime residential area in the city, while both associations are looking to get their hands on every penny they can in order to finance the development.

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Originally Posted by rerun

The training pitch is still there

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I think the current back pitch (or are there two?) runs perpendicular to the main pitch ATM and after the redevelopment, it will be parallel to the main pitch thus saving about 50 metres.