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White Elephant Spotted Near Lisburn Getting Bigger
The government's plan for a Millenium Dome type project for Northern Ireland became more laughable this week as ministers announced that the 30,000 seater white elephant of a stadium that would cost £55 million was now a 42,000 seater stadium costing £85 million!!
30,000 was already too many and now they're building more?! There's a debate going on over at Our Wee Country and yours truly gave a short interview on Radio Ulster's Talkback this morning. The show can still be listened to online until Friday 30th September (the stadium debate is just over an hour into the show, to listen click "listen again" and find Friday's Talkback).
Follow up:
I won't go into, yet again, the details of exactly why the stadium should be in Belfast, but there are all sorts of arguments (economic, transport infrastructure, the atmosphere, national pride and then some). Check out Stadium For Belfast and sign the petition. If you're not convinced yet then see my previous posts:
British Champions Deserve Better - 9/9/05
Belfast Welcomes 2012 Olympics - 6/7/05
Slim-Fast Stadium Gets Green Light - 31/3/05
Henry McDonald (the Observer's Ireland correspondent) has also had a couple of articles on this topic in the Daily View and in the Observer this month - "One More Battle To Win".