QuoteA few Shamrock Rovers members are card carrying members of Fine Gael, thus easing the way for funds to be released for the new Harps stadium..Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
*may or may not be true
You’re guess is as good as mine!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
A few Shamrock Rovers members are card carrying members of Fine Gael, thus easing the way for funds to be released for the new Harps stadium..
*may or may not be true
Thank f**k the Shamrock Rovers Fine Gael people are on the case or it might have been delayed!!!!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Photo of the new ground in the Donegal paper as it is, would remind you of Tallaght Stadium before SDCC took over. There is a common ground there over the years, or maybe a common trauma on delayed ground projects.
You know that feeling when you arrive at a party and everyone else is already drunk....?
Well it is that time of year…
Pearse will shame them and whip it all in to shape - he permanently looks like he is suffering the day after the night before Christmas party!
Some might see it as an amateur operations but it an operation that has kept the club alive for 70 years and in the LOI For 55 of those. Many clubs from far more populated areas have come and gone in that time, one of two have come, gone and then come again.
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Keeping the show on the road I think is one of the most impressive achievements of any and all LoI clubs with 'amatuer' jibes or not. Having said that if I were to say that Dundalk have kept the show on the road for over a century including in the last few months does it absolve amatuer hour over the last few years? Until the new ground in Stranrolar is built efforts will be met with flippancy in a similar manner to Derry City's efforts to win the league, 28 years and counting (or 15 for DCFC nua)!
It annoys me that amateur has become a jibe. The root of the word is in "amar", to love. The volunteers who keep the league afloat are amateurs in the pure sense, and don't deserve the scorn that some people attach to the word. There's plenty of professionals out there running businesses into the ground, either out of incompetence or short-term greed.
You can't spell failure without FAI
We can't all be paragons of virtue signalling.
Any truth to the rumour that the stadium plans originally hit the skids when some concerned supporters raised objections to the club wanting to engage multiple contractors?
Is anyone who has a better idea of how planning permission works able to give a roughly timeline of whats expected here after the application is submitted?
Would Harps expect to get feedback in the next 4-6 weeks, and if successful they'll be hoping to start construction at some point next summer? Is there any world where they could be in a semi completed Stranorlar for the start of the 2026 season?
If the ammendments are basic enough, reading that Donegal Live piece it suggests formalities, permission could be granted in days rather than weeks. If there was some messing with previous plans especially issues with compliance then it'll be like a new application albeit the leg work done and paperwork in order, so before Christmas for a project of this profile. If there is some random bad news due in Donegal in the new year on say council budget trimming then it will wait til then.
As for original contractor, while there has been a roaring lack of any comment saying plenty, the public issue seemed a lot more the builder had had multiple objections to fulfilling agreed work - multiple contractors (builders is a better title tbh) could be a reason why along with tax clearance and the release of tranches of funding. Cant see Dept of Sport allocating grants beyond initial planning phases without a valid tender process and that doesnt include multiple builders.....will Harps ever declassify the full story or is there a book in it one day for some local hack.
I wouldn't believe a word of that article. Twice it mentions that Cat 3 is the highest stadium category
That bugged me. I hate when articles are poorly researched.
Maybe being paragons of paying your debts and at least attempting to live within your means. And to answer your question no the club had one contractor who build the basic structures of one stand then withdrew from the project due to long delays in funding availability( not all the fault of Finn Harp FC). The club may have talked to multiple contractors after that
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Like you were giving a Full time manager a Four year contract and a load of foreign signings on crowds of no more than 800?
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeow
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Aw, let him tell us all about the fancy flashing orange lights on his bwm.
Could be worse, could be spending £2m a year and end up with nothing to show for it.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
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