Ulster’s added incentive as Belfast hosts final

Guinness Pro12: A reinvigorated Ulster could not have asked for a better incentive to lift their first silverware for almost a decade when Belfast won the bid stage to host the Guinness Pro12 final at the Kingspan Stadium on Saturday, May 30.

Ulster’s added incentive as Belfast hosts final

The 18,000-capacity stadium at Ravenhill was nominated ahead of the tender by Glasgow who had planned to use the 4G pitch at Kilmarnock’s Rugby Park. Originally there were four very interested applicants but both Dublin and Cardiff pulled out before the final tenders were taken.

While Glasgow would have seen their financial outlay fully been written off by the Kilmarnock County Council, Kingspan Stadium’s bid was backed by the Belfast City Council, Visit Belfast, Tourism Ireland and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.

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