Decision on Lansdowne due this month

THE Government will decide to build a new 50,000-seater stadium at Lansdowne Road before the end of the month and finally abandon plans to create the “Bertie Bowl” at Abbotstown.

Tánaiste Mary Harney and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern appeared to be at loggerheads on the issue over the weekend with Mr Ahern still backing a 65,000-seater stadium at Abbotstown, in West Dublin.

But Mr Ahern insisted the building of a second stadium, after Croke Park, was his main priority.