Hopes of Significant UK Funding for Casement Park

Casement park rebuild given boost after Government pledges £50m in spending review

Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill says it is now time to get the GAA stadium built

Government pledges £50m for Casement Park rebuild

Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill said it is now time to get the GAA stadium built.

UK government to announce today whether it will commit funding to Casement Park redevelopment

The British Chancellor Rachel Reeves will today unveil the UK government’s spending review, which could include funding.

Hopes of significant UK funding for Casement Park

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is to set out her spending review in the House of Commons later today.

Casement Park gets £50 million pounds in Spending Review

The proposed redevelopment of Casement Park has been a regular feature on Slugger for a few years now. You can go all the way back to an article by Pete Baker from 2013 (wherein he quaintly describes the project as a ‘£70 million plan’), to our own Brian O’Neill railing against the project as a farce in 2017 (the madness was not stopped but it was stymied…which in hindsight was the worst possible option given it lead to costs steadily accumulati…

As Casement Park funding decision due, Lord Elliott warns government extra GAA cash will be seen as 'excluding unionists'

​The positive elements of the GAA cannot be separated from the organisation’s “political perspective” – and any additional funding delivered to the Casement Park project will be seen as supporting an organisation that excludes over half of the Northern Ireland population, an Ulster Unionist peer has told the government.