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Athletics events added for 2008

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

2008 Athletics events across the Continent with Irish participation have been added today.

The Brand new website is going live his week.

we are currently tranfering the data from the existing site to the new one.

There are many  athletics events this year, chances than no matter what part of Europe you are based - Irish athletes will be competing nearby sometime this year.
These include events in Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Belgium.
You can even start planning for 2009, with events in Russia, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia, Finland, Germany and Ireland all added already.

currently can be seen at

http://www.europeanirish.com/new/events.php

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Irish identity

Friday, December 21st, 2007

A recent topic posed the question of Irish identity. I don’t recall the precise wording so for fear of annoying The Mammiban I won’t use an exact quotation but it was something like ‘What does it mean to be Irish?’ It’s not something I think about much. I have regular almost daily contact with old pals in Dublin & neither do they. None of us ever thought of ourselves as football shirts. Lately though it’s become a matter of some urgency. Lately I find I’m the subject of the Hurling Test. The Hurling Test? Norman Tebbit, a non-descript Goebbals lookalike who paraded thuggery like a pet poodle, came up with the concept ‘The Cricket Test’. This was an on-the-spot identity test; who you cheered for in cricket in England determined your identity. It was of course a cheap shot, worthy of Rule 26 at it’s best but when the muck flies some of it always sticks. Lately I’m under scrutiny as to how Irish I am.Mostly it’s about music. Maybe it should be called the Christy Moore Test; if you love Christy you’re Irish & if you don’t you’re a .. a .. a what? I was trying to colour some music & pipes & whistles were the only option. Hi-tec promises much & delivers little .. a case of anything gores & nothing works. Biz as usual. The pipes, the uilleann pipes are not a unique concept in structure but they are a one-off miracle in tone & dynamics. You can’t sample the pipes. Well you can but it sounds like someone set fire to the petshop. So I took a look at ITM in Nederland. For those of you who don’t know ITM is Irish Traditional Music. No ‘Inc.’ Not yet.

The results were startling. It seems ITM is very popular in Nederland. Besides the usual theme pubs, Scarcity O’Pahtayties & such like, many people actually play Irish music. Sorry .. I meant many play ITM. So what, I asked myself, is ITM. There are of course language & cultural anomalies. Or at least you’d think there would be but there is’nt. ITM is a kind of full-blast O’Disneyland version of Darby O’Gill & Deh Littil Peepil. Enter Christy Moore & Co.

I did have some really great recording sessions with a Dutchman who played whistles, accordian & bodhran. His bodhran playing was nothing short of astonishing. I started calling him Ginger Baker. For those of you who don’t know, Ginger Baker was known way back in the 1960’s to bang the odd drum with an ensemble called The Cream. My Dutch bodhran player quickly got over the shock of being likened to a ‘pop group’. Most bodhran players would improve their sound no end if they played the bodhran with a knife. Or a hammer-action drill. Or a bottle of nitric acid. Or suspend disbelief a while, pretend it’s a pittza & eat the bodhran. Anything but play it. This guy was something else entirely. He played with fierce drive & impeccable rhythm. This guys playing was the dogs ballocks. His whistle playing was every bit as good only he did’nt always think so. I wondered why this could be. I found out soon enough. We had a few goofy takes but I just sampled & dropped it back in again. It works. Simple? No. After 10 beers all playing had to stop. This was not because we were unable to play any more. Au contraire, the kitchen was just warming up. The crockery was just starting to rattle but it all stopped dead on it’s arse. I may have heard some mutterings about protestant work-ethos but in all god’s teeth I was too busy looking for the bottle-opener.

It seems the ITM is now an off-shoot of The Legion of Mary. Remember them? The forerunners of The Mammiban .. If you’re not old enough to remember them just think Joni Mitchell. Who? Joni Mitchell [nee Anderson] wrote & continues to write incredibly great songs & music but in the 70’s she was the icon of the Irish Professional Virgins, all sensitive winsome souls who had all had encounters with their very own Uncle Ernie. Maybe this is where Irish Identity begins to make some sense of a sort. Irish women were all had by Uncle Ernie [or Seamas or Conor] whereas Irish men were the exclusive-abuse franchise of our educators, Brothers & Fathers alike. It’s only fair to say all this was before the rise of The Kerry Babies, Ireland’s first go at post-natal contraception. You never heard of The Kerry Babies either?? It’s very simple [again]; you are a sexually active teenage girl in Iteland with no rights to control your own fertility so you get pregnabt, give birth & then throw your new-born off the nearest cliff. See? Simple! Never mind; let’s get on with the gig. Where were we? Oh yeah, pipes & whistles …

I looked about for a piper. I took a name on good advice. The name even had a website!! I looked. It looked good too. They even have c.d. sales. Annaman scian! It looked good ’til I looked at the c.d. samples. It was all Mudder Reilly’s Drainpipes, Johnsons Motorcar, Finnigans Elephant & McBrides Railins .. same old same old ..

All well & good. It takes all sorts. The website had all the usual awful personae pics of people who feel the need to wear hats to play. They should change their heads! But needs must & the divil drives so I drove on. I sent a mail. I got a mail back, a glowing positive mail. I thought. So I sent some mp3 of work-in-progress. In return I got nothing. Cuiness [pro: kew-ness]. Nothing. So I wrote more. You get the ‘come on’, what do you do? Join the Legion of Mary. Alas I am a dozy jackeen for I persisted. Finally I got a vitriolic reply, a nasty piece of pidgin-intelligentia drivil, objecting to my inference of plastic paddy syndrome. Plastic Paddy Syndrome. Never heard of that either? Well now … sez he ….

You think you’re Irish? No you’re not. You are a value-added-acquisition [Celtic]. I found this out by the slow road. My bodhran player brought along a dvd on one session. For those of you who think you know; a session is where/when everyone gets drunk & sings about having no pahtayties. For those of you who do know; a session is where you play & record music. After the obligatory Legion of Mary no-music-after-10-pints edict was reached we watched the dvd. It was The Best Celtic Music From Ireland. ?? It was produced under the moniker Gael Force. Unless my memory fails me Gael Force was the music of Jack MacAuley, except of course Jack played in a ‘pop group’, called Them, whose ranks also included another grumpy Irishman named George Ivan Morrison. This Gael Force was another parcel of spuds. No sign of Sean O’Riada. Of course Sean O’Riada is dead but his music is also dead now, except for when it’s ponced off by the chancers & culture vultures. Still think you’re Irish? This abomination of a dvd featured Mary Black doing her best Shirley Bassey & Christy [praise & blessings be upon him] Moore doing his gold-plated-shovel bits. Still think you’re Irish? Tick the right boxes & you are. The only thing that shone on the entire presentation was Sharon Shannon. Her band rocked & rolled & defied gravity in places. Stunning stuff. That’s Irish; break the rules, push the limits, make wonderstuff straight from the kitchen. Do miracles with a little. I believe the Dutch is ‘We row with the spoons we have’.

I thought the English were the New Irish. Essentially stupid. They, the English, qualify in all the right catagories .. liars as leaders, export the poor, feed the rich, the De Valera Constitution [round up the usual suspects][& shoot them], the Cosgrave dynasty, Garret FitzBallocks, the small farmers & the eternal no pahtayties mentality. The English show no signs of improvement; Soviet Britain is as it does, Blairznev foxtrot-oscars only to be replaced by Broondropov. Plus ca merde plus ca meme merde. Just look at the football team [though on recent shows there maybe Ireland is the New England]. Same old same old. But Dutch ITM [patent pending] shows all the signs of overtaking all possible forecasts. You want to be Irish? Go Dutch. Get a whistle or a bodhran or a fiddle & play Flahertys Jax or Me Mudder Have No Boat It Have Sunk & you’ll do fine. Play your cards right & they’ll give you honorary wooded shoes. If you want to be really rilly rilly good grab a set of pipes & a stupid hat, spend 8 hours a day meditating on your analysis of the infinite .. blaziz jayziz you’re Irish!!!

I’m not. I was only born there. I only lived there. I realise that does’nt qualify me as Irish. I don’t like Christy Moore? .. c’mon! I’m just a weirdo from Finglas. Finglas used to be in Dublin. Dublin Ireland not Idaho. Same difference. Phil Lynott was a nigger in Dublin. Me too. Just a nigger of a different colour.

You be Irish. I’ve had enough of the disease.

Just get your pipes & your hippy hat & blow rasberries. No-one will notice.

 

Austin Coll

Zwolle

Dec 21

 

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For ALL Irish people living in Europe (Continent)

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

The first ever survey about Irish people in Europe is being conducted.

If You are Irish and are based in or moving to Continental Europe -

This short survey is for you!

Please forward this email to every Irish person you know living in Europe. 
It is really important for the Irish in Europe.
Please answer just a few short questions in 90 seconds or less Click the Link and answer the questions, thanks.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=c_2bbUKK6N36zUdjY5Fx1FKA_3d_3d

What are the best and hardest things about living in Europe ?
Why might you stay, why might you return?

This survey is specifically about you - Irish people living in Continental Europe.

If you know of any Irish person living anywhere in Continental Europe , please send this survey to him or her today.
If you know many Irish People living in Europe, please send this to them all. This very important survey about you and for you,  and is finishing this week. If you are Irish in Europe - now you can get your say. Click Here to take survey - Have You taken the survey yet? 

Thanks in Advance
Siasy Collins

 

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History as County Europe plays Hurling against Irish Club Champions Killurin

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

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The Hague, Netherlands, 8th December 2007

Killurin 3-13   1-10 County Europe
“Killurin, winners of the Home Leinster Special Junior Club Hurling Championship defeated a brave  “County Europe”  in the Historic Away Leinster Final held in The Hague, The Netherlands on Saturday December 8th” reports Siasy Collins, Editor of EuropeanIrish.com - the resource for Irish people living in Contiental Europe.

Hurling is one of Ireland’s two national sports, and is currently also played in Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) clubs across Continental Europe – in Brussels, Paris, Luxembourg, Zurich, Den Haag, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Groningen,  Munich, Dusseldorf, Budapest, Vienna, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Knn Croatia and Llati Finland. Gaelic Football, Ireland’s other National Sport is also played in Sweden, Czech Republic and Portugal.

Played at lightening speed, hurling is similar to hockey, played on a sports field, and the players can pickup the ‘sliotar’ (ball) and strike it long distances with the hurley. With ‘H’ shaped goals, 3 points are awarded for a Goal under the crossbar, and 1 point for a score over the crossbar and between the posts. The match is played with 15 players per side, a standard club match lasting 60 minutes, played in 2 halves.

“As the winners of the 2007 European Hurling Championship, Den Haag GAA Club of The Netherlands, one of the longest established and most successful GAA clubs on mainland Europe, were awarded the honour of hosting Killurin and Europe in this first ever match by a mainland Europe Hurling team in the Leinster Championship series (Leinster is an Irish Province)”, says Marie Sheehan, Den Haag GAA Club PRO. “County Europe team comprised hurlers from clubs in Brussels, Paris, Luxembourg, Zurich and host club Den Haag.”

There was no shortage of skill and clash of the ash on display, as Killurin and Europe played out a keenly contested close first half.
Just a single point separated the sides at half time.
Played over the full hour, Europe team which although fit, had not played together as a competitive team before, and is used to playing the European Championship over shorter 2 20-minute halves.
The more experience of the Killurin club side from Offaly began to tell late in the second half. Having whipped to a 3 point lead 1-13 to 1-10 with a few minutes left in the match, they finished the stronger with 2 dynamite late goals, to an overall win 3-13 to Europe’s 1-10. Maastricht based Hurling referee was Tony Bass.

“European County Board (ECB) currently encompasses 27 clubs in 13 countries speaking 11 different languages with over 600 male and 170 female adult players, which is an increase of 28% on two years ago! The largest clubs in Europe being Paris, Luxembourg, Munich & The Hague but all still have less than 100 members each.”  stated Eileen Jennings, Chairperson of the ECB.

Killurin from Offaly were crowned Leinster Special Junior Club Hurling Champions when they defeated Park Ratheniska from Laois on November 18th. On December 8th they added the first Away Leinster Special Junior Club Title to their honours.

www.EuropeanIrish.com

 

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The Irish Club Netherlands December Events: Christmas Parties, Ceili, Hurling

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

(1) December 8 - Hurling - A First - Leinster Club winners take on European All Star
 
(2) December 8 - Ceiliuradh Le Cheile - Celebrate Together 19:00 - 04:00
 
(3) Monthly Events
 
(4) December 16 - Childrens Christmas Party Shillelagh Den Haag
 
(5) Message from our Italian Irish music lover
 
(6) CONTRACTOR FOR THE NEW STADIUM AT LANSDOWNE ROAD
 
(7) Cairdeas - an bronntana Nollag is fearr
 
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December 8 - Hurling - A First - Leinster Club winners take on European All Star

December 8 we www.denhaaggaa. com will be hosting, at the WRC, Westlands Rugby Club, Beresteinlaan 52, Den Haag the hurling match between Europe and the Leinster Junior Champions Killurin, Co. Offaly.

This is a historic occasion as it is the first time the winners of any GAA competition in Ireland will earn the right to take on the best in European hurling.  It promises to be a great game, certainly the highest standard of hurling ever to be played in the Netherlands since the County teams of Clare and Wexford played a game in Hurling Hockey Club in Amsterdam nearly 3 2 decades ago..
 
We expect a large number of supporters to come over from Ireland , so, let’s do all we can to get out a big home support as well.  I know we won’t get Croke Park figures but please show support for the efforts being made by European GAA to promote the best sport in the WORLD.Tony Bass European County Secretary will be the referee and well deserved considering the efforts and hours he has given to European GAA all codes. 

Special thanks to the Liam O’Neill and Sheamus Howlin, Leinster Council for allowing this to happen www.gaa.ie/leinster  .

Bring your family, friends and colleagues along to enjoy this unique occasion.

Bain taitneamh as!!

If you have a contact for a TV channel, newspaper or website, Dutch or Irish, send the details to Marie please.   mariesheehan@ yahoo.ie

(in Dutch )

Killurin, winnaars van het Leinster Special Junior Club Hurling kampioenschap in de finale tegen “County Europe” in Den Haag

Den Haag GAA club zal gastheer zijn voor de wedstrijd op 8 december 2007.

Den Haag, Nederland – 20 november, 2007 – De Den Haag Gaelic Athletic Association, kortweg GAA, is een van de oudste en succesvolste GAA clubs op het vaste land van Europa. Wij als club zijn er trots op dat wij gastheer mogen zijn van de finale van het Leinster Special Junior Club hurling kampioenschap, gespeeld door Killurin uit County Offaly, Ierland tegen ‘County Europe’.
 

Killurin uit Offaly werd Leinster Special Junior Club hurling kampioen door Park Ratheniska uit Laois te verslaan op 18 september jongst leden. Zij zullen naar Nederland af reizen om de finale tegen ‘County Europe’ - een team samengesteld van hurlers uit Brussel, Parijs, Luxemburg, Zurich en de gastclub Den Haag te spelen.
“Als winnaars van het Europees Hurling Kampioenschap 2007 zijn wij erg blij met het feit dat wij deze wedstrijd mogen organiseren. En wij verwelkomen Killurin bij onze club,” zegt Marie Sheehan, Den Haag GAA Club promotor. “2007 Is een zeer succesvol jaar geweest voor onze dames en heren

Directions to Westlandse Rugby Club Haaglanden (WRC):

Westlandse Rugby Club Haaglanden (WRC)

Beresteinlaan 52a (beside GONA)

Den Haag

www.wrc-haaglanden. nl
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Public transport: Tram 9 stop Beresteinlaan/ Melis Stokelaan & Bus 25 other end of Beresteinlaan by Lidl

By car:

From Amsterdam Direction (A4)

- Follow the A4 in the direction “Den Haag Zuid”

- Take exit number 12 “Den Haag Zuid (afrit 12)”

- Follow the road (it verves to the right) and continue straight

- When you come to the 4th set of traffic lights turn right onto Melis Stokelaan

- At the first ‘crossroads’ to left onto Beresteinlaan

- The rugby club, WRC-Haaglanden, is on your right hand side

From the Rotterdam Direction (A13)

- Follow the A13 in the direction Den Haag

- Take exit number 7 “Den Haag Zuid (afrit 7)”

- Go right in the direction “Den Haag Zuid A4 (E30)”

- Follow the direction A4 richting Den Haag Zuid (E30)

- Take exit number 12 “Den Haag Zuid (afrit 12)”

- Follow the road (it verves to the right) and continue straight

- When you come to the 4th set of traffic lights turn right onto Melis Stokelaan

- At the first ‘crossroads’ to left onto Beresteinlaan

- The rugby club, WRC-Haaglanden, is on your right hand side
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December 8 - Ceiliuradh Le Cheile - Celebrate Together 19:00 - 04:00

A GREAT FORMAL DINNER PARTY
WITH INFORMAL ATMOSPHERE !
SOUTH AMERICA MEETS IRELAND - CHICOLEO PART II
Strandweg 155, 2586 JM Scheveningen
(between the Pier and Carlton Beach Hotel)
Phone 070-3588642
Semi-Formal Attire

This event is organized by the Irish Club~Netherlands, Den Haag GFHC and Holland Ladies team as a celebration dinner for the winners on the day and also for the winning Leinster Junior Hurling Club (Killuren, Co. Offaly, Ireland) and as an end of season and Christmas party celebration for all the organizers after a very successful year of culture and sport.

Join in the ceol agus craic - An Oiche “Ceiliuradh Le Cheile”.

PROGRAM Saturday 8th of December 2007

19.00 hrs – RECEPTION
Welcome Cocktail (with or without alcohol).
On the tables you’ll find nachos and dips
Music:
Katie & Conor 
19.30 hrs BUFFET AI CARAMBA!
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Presentations
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Sean Kilkenny Irish Dancers
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22.00 – 01.00 hrs Live Music with Band “Big Deal” a five piece cover band that have promised to get us all dancing. 

01.00 – 04.00 hrs DJ - Kutzai will help us make sawdust out of the dancefloor and keep us going until the wee wee hours of the morning. There will be a raffle and lots of spot prizes you’ll be delighted to know that all of this is included in the ticket price!

Contact: 06-20573678 to book your ticket NOW limited space 

 

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(3).
Monthly Events
(a). Contact Helen 070-3923273 if you would like to join this group.
Also, if you fancy going for a nice long walk any weekend please call Helen.

(b).  Ceadaoin 19/12/07
Beidh Teacht le Chéile le  caint agus craic as Gaeilge i ‘Murphy’s Law’ ó 8 i.n. go dtí 10 i.n.  Is cuma faoi do chumas teanga…tar chun do chúpla focail a úsáid agus b’fhéidir cúpla ceann eile a fhoghlam!!!!

Wednesday 19/12/07
There will be a Teacht le Chéile with chat and craic through Irish in ‘Murphy’s Law’ from 8pm until 10 pm.  Don’t worry about your language ability….come to use your few words and maybe learn a few more….

(Teacht le Chéile is the official name of the informal drink occasion, as Gaeilge, of the Irish Club~ Netherlands )
Maire Ni Shlatara (an muinteoir) mnishlatara@hotmail.com
Ait: Murphy’s Law, Dr. Kuyperstraat 11, Den Haag
(in aici le an Ambasáid na hÉireann chun Ríocht na hÍsiltíre)
irishclub_nederland@yahoo.co.uk

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December 16 - Childrens Christmas Party Shillelagh Den Haag
Irish Club Netherlands
Children’s Christmas Party
14.00-17.00 hour’s
Sunday, 16th December

The Shillelaigh (Upstairs Functions Room), Javastraat 94, The Hague
Lots of fun and games
Entertainment: by the famous Zassie (clown) of course
Santa will be arriving as usual with bags full of presents
He needs to know your childs age, sex & name by  December 12th.
Please contact  Caroline macafici@planet. nl
070-4277123/ 06-24417780
or Eithne: 070-3657425

Members:   € 5.00                     Non-members: € 7.50

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Message from our Italian Irish music lover

Dear friends,

One of these days there will be a new Website where you can read more about the Irish, Italian and Dutch musicians and about the Irish dancers, who will play, sing and dance at our Music night on Saturday January 26, 2008, I will let you know when the Website is on line.

The tickets for this night will be available next week, starting on Tuesday November 27,in the Murphy’s Law, Dr. Kuyperstraat 7, 2514 BA  Den Haag, located between the Denneweg and the Koninginnegracht, right next to the Irish Embassy.

This nice Pub is closed on Sundays, but on all other days you can enjoy the cosy and relaxed atmosphere and all the good wines, beers, single malt whisky and much more, and every Monday night starting around 2100H,they have very nice jazz-jam sessions.

So if you would like to join our next Music night in January, this is the place where you can find your tickets, for those of you who live out of town, please send over 30 Euro p.p. to; A.J.G. Bruti  Gondelstraat 53     2586 ER  Den Haag  ING banknr. 67 53 16 928, with your name and address, and please mention; Contribution Music night. And I will send over your tickets by post.

In order to create a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere for all of us that night, there will be a limited number of tickets available, so please get your tickets in time, and join us in the Church, where we will have many hours of pure music, pure food, and where good wine and beer will be available.
For those of you who didn’t receive my first email, for whatever reason, please let me know and I will send it again, for now all the best.

Sandro
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CONTRACTOR FOR THE NEW STADIUM AT LANSDOWNE ROAD

22/11/2007

SISK APPOINTED MAIN CONTRACTOR FOR THE NEW STADIUM AT LANSDOWNE ROAD

Sisk, Ireland’s largest construction company, has been appointed main contractor on the New Stadium at Lansdowne Road .  Sisk, who won the contract following a public procurement tendering process, will have overall responsibility for the construction of the stadium, which is scheduled to see its first action in 2010.  Sisk is currently mobilising on site.

The contract with the Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company (LRSDC) was formally signed earlier today, 22 November, 2007, in the presence of Mr Seamus Brennan T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism.  The New Stadium is a joint venture between the IRFU and the FAI with the Government providing €191 million towards the cost. 

Work on the construction of the new stadium began in May of this year with the awarding of both the demolition and sub structure contracts.  Demolition of the old stadium was  completed over the August bank holiday weekend with the demolition of the old West Stand. 

Work on the sub structure commenced in tandem with the demolition programme.  A key element in the new stadium, the construction of a podium over the DART line, was completed over the October bank holiday.  Along with the construction of the podium a major new underpass under the railway line was also completed over that weekend. 

Currently the sub structure programme is well advanced.  This has included the construction of a basement under the East Stand and work on a new underground car park under the back pitch. 

Sisk will have complete control over all of the various construction contracts in relation to the stadium including the structural steel, the cladding, the installation of the pitch etc.  In order to meet the LRSDC deadline of matches being played in the new stadium in 2010 many of these contracts were initially awarded independently.

Speaking on behalf of Sisk Mr Tom Costello, the Sisk director in charge of the project, said that Sisk was delighted to have won the contract given the fact that it has already been responsible for the construction of Croke Park .  “We believe we have a unique insight into what is required in the construction of a major sporting venue such as this.  We fully realise that Lansdowne is quite a different stadium than Croke Park but many of the challenges are the same.  We are really excited to have the opportunity to deliver what is another essential piece of Ireland ’s sporting infrastructure”.

Speaking on behalf of LRSDC Mr Philip Browne, chairman of the company, said that he was “delighted with the progress on the stadium to date. The work continues to be on schedule and that is essential.  I think everyone connected with sport in Ireland admires Croke Park .  It really is a fantastic stadium and I think everyone acknowledges that Sisk did a wonderful job there.  We are looking forward to having them on board and to seeing the new stadium rise out of the ground”.

On completion the new stadium at Lansdowne Road will have an all seated capacity of 50,000.  The new stadium will consist of a continuous curvilinear shaped stand enclosing all four sides of the ground.  The South, East and West Stands will have four tiers of seating for spectators.  The second tier will provide facilities for premium ticket holders while the third tier will provide facilities for corporate boxes.  The North Stand will comprise of one low level seating tier to reflect its proximity to the residential properties at that end of the ground.

 

Note on Sisk:

Sisk are Ireland ’s largest and longest established construction firm having been established in 1859 and currently employing 1500. A private, family owned enterprise, the company will be celebrating its 150 years in business in 2009.  The company has been synonymous with construction in Ireland having delivered such well known landmarks down the years as Cavan and Galway Cathedrals, Cork City Hall, Irish Life Mall, and more recently Croke Park, Dundrum Town Centre, Cork School of Music and the recently opened Ritz Carlton Hotel at Powerscourt.  Sisk are also currently constructing the new Convention Centre, Grand Canal Square, and major pharmaceutical facilities for Johnson & Johnson at Centocor and Cordis.  Sisk have seven offices countrywide located in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Waterford and Dundalk and have built a reputation for delivering complex projects, utilising latest construction innovations and managing within predetermined ! budgets and schedules. Sisk are focused on the following construction sectors Commercial, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Residential, Civil Engineering, Healthcare, Hotels & Leisure, Industrial and Social Infrastructure.  Sisk were recent recipients of the NISO Overall Construction safety Award for 2007.

 

*SEE OUR MEDIA GALLERY AT WWW.LRSDC.IE FOR THE LATEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NEW STADIUM*
Regards,
Claire Seale

LRSDC

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Cairdeas - an bronntana Nollag is fearr

Friendship - the best Christmas gift of all  Cairdeas - an bronntana Nollag is fearr

Sonas agus siochain faoi Nollaig

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