New East Stand development underway

DEMOLITION work at Lansdowne Road is due to finish in December but work has already begun on the new state-of-the-art ground with excavation and supports for the new East Stand currently underway.

Built in 1983, the old East Stand was the most modern part of the ground prior to its redevelopment but it has come under the bulldozers’ gaze this week, as has it’s counterpart on the far side of the pitch.

The West Stand, straddling as it does the adjacent railway line, offers the trickiest assignment for the developers but work has been ongoing on the structure all week.