The UK government are refusing to cough up the cash that is needed to get Casement Park done it seems and a lot of people, especially in the GAA community aren’t happy ..

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Having Casement Park + the European championships would have facilitated around £300 million to the local economy, been a boost for local sport and community relations, and been good for NI

We’ll look back while they’re taking place and wonder ‘how on earth did we fumble that?’

— Peter McReynolds MLA (@PMcReynoldsMLA) September 14, 2024

Pretty sad that there’s grown men on this platform laughing gleefully at the UK government’s announcement on lack of funding for Casement Park.

They’ve also paused huge funding packages for city deals that would have benefited all communities across all of Northern Ireland.

— Kristian Ross (@Kristian7Ross) September 13, 2024

They’re the same no hopers who are laughing as Northern Ireland is decaying around them. Has anyone taken a walk around the centre of Belfast recently? The place is falling asunder with dereliction and decaying buildings. And the roads – they’re from another era.

Two very different things. The City deals would have benefitted large parts of many communities and all of NI (hopefully still will) It was a mistake to ever consider an enhanced design for Casement without making some excess spending a loan to be repaid by non sporting events

Yes. Building a new stadium in the middle of a residential area that half the residents don’t want would 100% be a good use of public funds. There is absolutely nothing that the Casement site brings to the table, apart from expense, inconvenience, and political baggage

The decision not to fund Casement Park in time for Euro 2028 is a huge missed opportunity for our city and the North as a whole.

It would have created opportunity in one of our most deprived areas and memories to last a lifetime.

Attention must now turn immediately to building… pic.twitter.com/CnyEThcIsY

— Paul Doherty (@PaulDoherty___) September 13, 2024

There's your #unionofpeople right there, unionists got their way, they'd rather not host the Euros than have them at #CasementPark The stadium will still be built and will still be a fantastic assest to the whole community https://t.co/YYOveJDws2

— Richard Grant (@RichardJGrant) September 13, 2024