FAI join IRFU on site of new stadium

THE officers of the IRFU and the FAI will today tell the minister for sport that Lansdowne Road is their preferred option as the site for the proposed new football stadium.

Substantial problems will have to be overcome if the site is to be developed into the state-of-the-art stadium that rugby and soccer need, but officers of both organisations are satisfied it can be done.

The news will come as a disappointment to Minister John O’Donoghue, because the Government are still clinging to their planned development of Abbotstown as a sports campus catering for a wide range of sports disciplines.