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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin View Post
    Sorry, I didn't mean the stadium couldn't use renovation, I meant the GAA already have three 40,000-seater stadiums in Munster, two of which they barely use, and there's no justification for spending €70m of taxpayer's money on another.
    Ya absolutely mental. I live across the road from the Gaelic Grounds and it has only been close to filled around 4 times since it was re-built. Complete waste of money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jofspring View Post
    Ya absolutely mental. I live across the road from the Gaelic Grounds and it has only been close to filled around 4 times since it was re-built. Complete waste of money.
    Fair play to them for getting away with it for so long. Maybe one day we can talk about football clubs eating up grants, although unlike GAA it'd be actionable under competition law.

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    The GAA can morph into a cultural/heritage mode at will and dip their beak into whatever taxpayer trough is doling out public funds.The fact that an Ard Comhairle/Polibeureau sanction is required for any other sport to use these publicly funded facilities, is a sectarian disgrace ( except if your team is a US armed forces/elite white US university American football team)

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    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/c...-15m-1.2407351

    According to IT article, the shopping centre at Dalymount is going up for sale, big deal but the article says that the lot includes the Tramway end of the ground.... Can Bohs and the Council redevelop Dalymount properly if the tramway end is a Tesco or a Costa Coffee?
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    Is the secondary site the car park beside the Des Kelly and behind the Connaught? I thought Bohs owned that?

    If the tramway end, and the car park are gone, how will they have space to develop into a 10k facility?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin View Post
    Pairc Ui Caoimh doesn't even need to be upgraded. They already have three big grounds in Munster that the government has spunked millions on.
    Well, it does now, as it's been half demolished.

    Plenty of strokes pulled to get the €30 mill, as you'd expect.
    Plenty of strokes pulled to get the nearby land for a song from Cork City Council before that.

    Cork is a completely GAA-dominated town, people often forget that if they read about big crowds at Turner's Cross and so on. It's a constant struggle to keep League of Ireland football alive in the city/county, despite the population argument.
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    http://www.derryjournal.com/news/bra...ncil-1-7049017

    So the news we have finally been waiting for, all is agreed. Dog track moving to showgrounds. Pitch will be moved closer to current seated stand and levelled (currently a 7ft slop from one end of pitch to other) and will be a 3G pitch. Lone Moor Side to be totally demolished with new stand, changing rooms, corporate facilities, media room all included. Outer perimeter wall to be demolished whole way round ground and replaced.

    For away fans, the view will be alot better. Because of the slope from one side of the ground to the other, the away end has a poor view. When its levelled off it will have a far better view. Great news finally for us

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    "The existing grass pitch will be replaced with a 3G football surface".

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    Well Dundalk are the best team in the league because of their pitch
    Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Longfordian View Post
    Well Dundalk are the best team in the league because of their pitch
    Our away record says otherwise

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    Quote Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite View Post
    Our away record says otherwise
    Switch that sarcasm detector back on will ya.

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    The Brandywell will be a great little stadium once that's all completed. It'll be relatively enclosed despite only being two stands as once the pitch goes in tight to the current seated stand, the two ends will almost wrap around the corner of the pitch and you'll have away fans not too far off behind the goals.

    If they can work in some added terracing to connect up the two stands then you'd have a deadly ground. Finally, away fans will be able to watch a match there without second guessing everything that's happening.
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    Would love to see the cost-benefit analysis for the 30m state investment, never mind the many 20,000-30,000 capacity county grounds around the country that will be filled once a year if they're lucky

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    Quote Originally Posted by seand View Post
    Would love to see the cost-benefit analysis for the 30m state investment, never mind the many 20,000-30,000 capacity county grounds around the country that will be filled once a year if they're lucky
    Why bother doing a cost-benefit when you'll get the money anyway?

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    What the....?

    Three of those stands are two-tiered. Are Bray looking at a 20,000 seater ground?
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    The (Greater) Dublin Seagulls FC?
    Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.

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    Wouldn't be as cold as it would be totally enclosed. I beleive this would be more suitable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirelli_Stadium
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    Quote Originally Posted by seand View Post
    Would love to see the cost-benefit analysis for the 30m state investment, never mind the many 20,000-30,000 capacity county grounds around the country that will be filled once a year if they're lucky
    They got awarded the money first and then got asked for a cost benefit analysis, in that order, as far as I'm aware. There's no way that the figures stack up.

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    Had heard rumours of Bray trying to sign Sean Hoare and totally dismissed it, in fact I laughed at the person who told me but the latest seems to be there will be an injection of cash and these plans would seem to tie into that, interesting times ahead for Bray perhaps

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