Duffy: Spending £15m on Casement Park a ‘no-brainer’

Páraic Duffy has admitted the GAA’s £15m (€19m) investment in the Casement Park project is a huge undertaking for the Association in the current economic climate.

It’s the biggest financial outlay the GAA has committed to since the redevelopment of Croke Park and Thurles. The total redevelopment of a new 40,000 capacity all-seated Casement Park will cost £76m (€96m), with the government in Northern Ireland providing the bulk of the finance. But it is still a massive commitment for the GAA in recessionary times.

“We invested something similar in Thurles as well, but that was in better times,” said Ard Stuirthóir Duffy.