Casement Park

DUP leader Gavin Robinson MP (centre right) speaks to media at Police Service of Northern Ireland headquarters in east Belfast after meeting Chief Constable Jon Boutcher on Wednesday

Sinn Fein has given up on powersharing – Gavin Robinson

The Casement Park stadium project has been dogged by problems

Letter: Voters will get to decide on Sinn Fein’s promises

Some will argue that the Maze Stadium idea was too controversial to progress

Letter: Failure to build Maze Stadium was a mistake

Demolition work on the old Casement Park stadium in March this year

Scaling back Casement 'a vindication of our position' says UUP

Rubble at Casement Park GAA stadium

Smaller Casement ‘logical conclusion’ amid funding pressures – Lyons

How the rebuild Casement Park is supposed to look.

Casement Park 'will be built', insists O'Neill amid reports of 'scaling down'

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons. (Photo by Liam McBurney/PA Wire)

Gordon Lyons 'coming up with ideas and proposals' for NI Euro 2028 'legacy'

How the rebuild Casement Park is supposed to look.

Bid to claw back profits from publicly-funded Casement concerts 'attack on GAA'

The scene at Casement Park in Belfast last month. (Photo by Liam McBurney/PA Wire)

Gordon Lyons clear 'one of two things' needs to happen for Casement progress

An aerial view of Casement Park GAA stadium from 2023. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Boucher Road vote part of angle to shove major concerts into Casement Park - TUV

Broken concrete terracing at Casement Park, Belfast. Picture taken on January 22, 2026

Demolition work to begin this week at Casement Park stadium

An aerial view of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Casement Park: Site to be cleared but still no cash for stadium, say unionists

A general view of the derelict grounds of the Casement Park stadium

Work to prepare Casement Park for redevelopment to recommence next week

Morning View

Editorial: Stormont cannot even balance the generous budget that NI is given

Celtic interim manager Martin O'Neill on the touchline during the William Hill Premiership match at Celtic Park, Glasgow. Picture date: Sunday November 9, 2025.

Terrible that Belfast will not host Euro 2028 games – Martin O’Neill

Northern Ireland Football League CEO Gerard Lawlor. (Photo by Press Eye/Phil Magowan)

Gerard Lawlor claims 'irony of hypocrisy' at reaction to Euro draw in Belfast
Northern Ireland Football League chief executive Gerard Lawlor has hit out at what he views “the sheer irony of hypocrisy” following celebrations over Belfast’s selection as EURO 2028 qualifying draw hosts.
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An aerial view shows redevelopment works at Casement Park stadium in Belfast on March 19, 2024 (photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Stormont 'does not have £100 million sitting about to fund Casement Park'

A general view of the derelict grounds of the Casement Park stadium

First Minister ‘working night and day’ to ensure Casement Park is built

An aerial view of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

O'Neill and Little-Pengelly split over Casement £100m funding gap

An upgraded Windsor Park could be set to host matches at the 2035 Women's World Cup. (Photo by Jonathan Porter/PressEye)

Stormont backs NI as potential host venue for 2035 Women’s World Cup

Plans for a new 34,000-capacity stadium at Casement remain mired in uncertainty because of a significant funding gap.

Casement Park stuck in ‘limbo of Executive dysfunction’, MLAs told

First Minister Michelle O’Neill has called for 'full transparency and fairness' around the allocation of the Northern Ireland Football Fund.

First Minister calls for ‘full transparency’ over football club funding

Glentoran are one of 20 clubs that have been successful in securing a share of the stadia funding from the NI Football Fund. (Photo: Presseye)

NI Football Fund announcement welcomed by NIFL chief Gerard Lawlor

The rebuilding of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast has been a long-running saga

Executive discussions around Casement Park to take place ‘in due course’

Casement Park in the Andersonstown area of Belfast. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Joe Cahill controversy: UK minister silent on impact on £50m Casement Park grant

Without a bus service, people are forced to commute by car. Our public transport should do what it says on the tin - transport the public

Letter: Transport system must serve needs of commuters

An aerial view of Casement Park stadium lying derelict in March 2024; Secretary of State Hilary Benn has said that either more funding is found for the stadium or the current plans are scaled back

‘Onus back on Executive’ over rebuilding of Casement Park, Benn says
The onus is on the Northern Ireland Executive over the rebuilding of Casement Park, Secretary of State Hilary Benn has said.
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The government this week provided £50m for the Casement Park redevelopment in west Belfast.

Call for Casement Park funding to be 'clawed back' to public purse

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn says the government has done its bit on Casement Park - and the options are an affordable redesign, or raising more funds. Photo: Ben Whitley/PA Wire

Casement Park: Hilary Benn says smaller stadium is an one option

The GAA's Casement Park project has received a fresh cash injection of £50m from the UK government. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Calls for even more Casement Park cash as UK government stumps up £50m

Glentoran have ambitious plans to upgrade the infrastructure at The Oval via the Northern Ireland Football Fund

Northern Ireland Football Fund 'transcends football' says Ali Pour

TUV MP Jim Allister questioned the government's £50m 'preferential' spending on the GAA's Casement Park project.

Jim Allister criticises government's £50m spend on 'political' GAA

NIFL CEO Gerard Lawlor. (Photo by Press Eye / Phil Magowan)

Gerard Lawlor insists football clubs can't be forgotten amid Casement update

Screen grab of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Government's spending review to MPs in the House of Commons, London

UK Government to provide financial contribution of £50m to rebuild Casement Park

The GAA still wants a £260 million Casement Park arena, not much less than the projected £300 million plus for Euro 2028

Lord Elliott: extra GAA cash will be seen as 'excluding unionists'

Emma Little-Pengelly said the executive stood by its original commitment of £62.5 million for the GAA stadium

Casement Park: No ‘special case’ to fund one sport, says Little-Pengelly

A dilapidated stand at Casement Park in 2023; the ground closed in 2013 and has never been redeveloped - though there is a renewed push to get the UK government to pay towards the ballooning building bill

'No rational person could believe the GAA was treated unfairly over Casement'

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons during a press conference at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast. The GAA will need to make it plans for Casement Park more affordable if the UK government fails to cover a £150 million gap for the current proposed rebuild, the Sports minister has said

Sports Minister Gordon Lyons: GAA must make Casement affordable

Northern Ireland’s Communities Minister Gordon Lyons is to attend his first GAA match in the role this weekend

Gordon Lyons to attend first GAA match as Stormont Communities Minister

Belfast's Grand Central Station is to get new Irish language signs - at an estimated cost of £145,000 - just months after it opened

Letter: Irish language signs row is not the real problem

Crowds, including former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, have gathered in west Belfast to protest about the failure to redevelop Casement Park stadium.

Gaelic games players and supporters march to derelict Casement Park

It has been reported that the cost of redeveloping Casement Park has fallen to £270 million - still leaving a funding shortfall of about £150 million

No UK government decision on Casement funding until June, Lyons tells MLAs

An aerial view of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Casement Park: UK won't cover stadium's £150m cash shortfall, says Benn

Gordons Lyons said, during his trip to Washington along with DFM Emma Little Pengelly to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington, that he hoped to attend a GAA match this seaso

Gordon Lyons commits to attending GAA match amid criticism

Communities minister Gordon Lyons said there were delays with the rebuild of the west Belfast GAA stadium long before he came into office

Casement Park rebuild not being held back because of me – communities minister

Secretary of State Hilary Benn has been challenged on why the UK government is considering making up the £150m shortfall in revised plans to renovate Casement Park in west Belfast, which is currently derelict.

Benn pressed over extra cash for Casement's £150m shortfall

A subsequent proposal to transform Casement into a venue to host matches for the Euro 2028 tournament in the UK and Ireland collapsed due to funding

NI Secretary and Stormont Communities minister to meet over Casement Park

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons MLA in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast

"Absolutely false" that the DUP did not condemn anti-GAA signs: Gordon Lyons

An aerial view shows some redevelopment works at Casement Park stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland on March 19, 2024 (photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

'Time to cancel Casement project' says TUV as spending so far reaches £17m

GAA President Jarlath Burns

DUP bite back at GAA president's claims over the redevelopment of Casement Park

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has opened applications for the Northern Ireland Football Fund. (Photo by Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker)

Gordon Lyons: NI Football Fund and Casement not connected

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has opened applications for the Northern Ireland Football Fund Performance Programme. (Photo by Jonathan Porter/PressEye)

Gordon Lyons promises 'this is just the start' after opening NI Football Fund

The redevelopment of Casement Park has been stalled since 2011

Failure to rebuild Casement Park ‘not the fault of unionist ministers’

A view of derelict Casement Park on the Andersonstown road on February 27, 2017 in Belfast (Getty)

Demand for GAA to divulge cost of Casement as it says it is 'less than £400m'

If the Casement Park development is still substantially more expensive than originally planned, we must at least see a facility that is shared when needed with other sports

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