Brandywell Stadium Development

[stevebradley]

Has anyone taken a wrecking ballot the Glentoran stand yet, as we were promised was about to happen ?

[shauna]

It was still standing the other day when i passed it

[paul60]

The Berlin Wall came down quicker, probably because the Derry Strabane council are not involved. I suppose I shouldn't put Strabane in the same light as our former council.

[sunshine83]

This is what Roddy thinks of the new stadium -- listen carefully around 3mins 15secs

http://www.highlandradio.com/2015/09/06 ... ogression/

[danny hale]

Has anyone taken a wrecking ballot the Glentoran stand yet, as we were promised was about to happen ?

Mylie Cyrus. ?

[barrydcfc]

We just had the guy overseeing the redevelopment of the brandywell stadium in our street to inform residents that work to remove the stadium wall and Glentoran stand will commence in a weeks time. Hopefully that's the ball starting to roll on this new stand.

spied that this morning from a mates facebook, lives opposite the ground. Looking like we're finally getting a move on. About time.

[brendy_éire]

We just had the guy overseeing the redevelopment of the brandywell stadium in our street to inform residents that work to remove the stadium wall and Glentoran stand will commence in a weeks time. Hopefully that's the ball starting to roll on this new stand.

spied that this morning from a mates facebook, lives opposite the ground. Looking like we're finally getting a move on. About time.

Wouldn't hold your breath.

Deafening silence from the club regarding this whole issue too.

[TenaciousDee]

POD mentioned the redevelopment briefly yesterday on Foyle. Something about seeing the electrical plans or something. Hopefully 02887 is up in the Glentoran Stand with a saw to take my old seat out for keeps.

[Andy Bernard]

POD mentioned the redevelopment briefly yesterday on Foyle. Something about seeing the electrical plans or something.

Must be true then

[City89]

Funding commitments from Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness to redevelop the Brandywell stadium in Derry must be kept, a Foyle MLA has said.

SDLP MLA Colum Eastwood was speaking after questioning the acting First Minister, Arlene Foster, on the status of Social Investment Fund money that has been earmarked for the upgrade of the historic ground.

The minister was unable to provide an update.


“It was announced in 2013 that Derry City Council had made a successful bid to the Social Investment Fund which would help finance the redevelopment of the Brandywell,” Mr Eastwood said. “

“However, two years have passed and our local council is still waiting on a formal offer of funding from Stormont to allow stadium improvements to begin.

“The cost of redeveloping the Brandywell is forecast at £6.2m with nearly £4.5m coming from local ratepayers. The remaining £1.7m has been promised by Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson, we are waiting for that financial promise to be kept.”

The Foyle MLA said the lack of redevelopment at the ground “is a a source of great frustration for Derry City and its supporters.”

“Announcements have been made, start dates have come and gone, and still the stadium remains undeveloped. This must change. The financial package agreed by Stormont must be delivered to allow building work to begin.”


Mr Eastwood said the Brandywell Stadium should also benefit from a fund announced by Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure Carál Ní Chuilín that will see £36m made available for sub-regional football stadiums between 2016 and 2018.

“The Brandywell Stadium should benefit from this new fund. It is unfair that over £100m is being spent developing stadiums in Belfast, while Derry has been promised less than £2m. The Executive has a duty to ensure that public money is allocated on fair basis to worthy projects across the North, it should not focus the vast majority of its spending in Belfast.

“We cannot allow local ratepayers to fund the lion’s share of the Brandywell upgrade while other stadiums receive massive amounts of financial support from the Executive,” he said.

[martinbradleey]

Game on. Demolition starts on Monday, preparation work was being done today at Showgrounds gates.
Showgrounds wall going as well as the Glentoran stand.

[pmac]

“The Brandywell Stadium should benefit from this new fund. It is unfair that over £100m is being spent developing stadiums in Belfast, while Derry has been promised less than £2m. The Executive has a duty to ensure that public money is allocated on fair basis to worthy projects across the North, it should not focus the vast majority of its spending in Belfast."

And we have to fight tooth and nail to get less than £2 million, while Belfast is allocated over £100 million and they can't even spend it all. To think that approx £6 million has been already wasted on Casement Pk and yet there hasn't been a sod turned over, sure we have been putting up with that since the formation of this wee state. But yet with McGuinness and SF holding one hand on the purse strings we're still ****ed over.

[Andy Bernard]

Game on. Demolition starts on Monday, preparation work was being done today at Showgrounds gates.
Showgrounds wall going as well as the Glentoran stand.

Knocking down unsafe stuff is not developing the ground

[shauna]

“The Brandywell Stadium should benefit from this new fund. It is unfair that over £100m is being spent developing stadiums in Belfast, while Derry has been promised less than £2m. The Executive has a duty to ensure that public money is allocated on fair basis to worthy projects across the North, it should not focus the vast majority of its spending in Belfast."

And we have to fight tooth and nail to get less than £2 million, while Belfast is allocated over £100 million and they can't even spend it all. To think that approx £6 million has been already wasted on Casement Pk and yet there hasn't been a sod turned over, sure we have been putting up with that since the formation of this wee state. But yet with McGuinness and SF holding one hand on the purse strings we're still ****ed over.

I lost faith in sinn fein a long time ago, a party that sold out to the enemy and surrendered their weapons to that same enemy is no friend of derry or its people

[stevebradley]

“The Brandywell Stadium should benefit from this new fund. It is unfair that over £100m is being spent developing stadiums in Belfast, while Derry has been promised less than £2m. The Executive has a duty to ensure that public money is allocated on fair basis to worthy projects across the North, it should not focus the vast majority of its spending in Belfast."

And we have to fight tooth and nail to get less than £2 million, while Belfast is allocated over £100 million and they can't even spend it all. To think that approx £6 million has been already wasted on Casement Pk and yet there hasn't been a sod turned over, sure we have been putting up with that since the formation of this wee state. But yet with McGuinness and SF holding one hand on the purse strings we're still ****ed over.

I lost faith in sinn fein a long time ago, a party that sold out to the enemy and surrendered their weapons to that same enemy is no friend of derry or its people

Good point. They should have kept those weapons* and continued bombing and shooting Derry and its people. Because that's the kind of friends a city really needs.

* Not that SF had the weapons anyway !

[mickeyh]

This is what Roddy thinks of the new stadium -- listen carefully around 3mins 15secs

http://www.highlandradio.com/2015/09/06 ... ogression/

"and they're playing in OUR league"..... Jesus H this man is a complete moron...

[GERRYW]

Did any work start today then on the Glentoran stand does anybody know.

[KEVK]

Did any work start today then on the Glentoran stand does anybody know.

Drove past this afternoon at 3.30 a it was still standing. Seemed to be workmen around it though.

[shauna]

Did any work start today then on the Glentoran stand does anybody know.

The roof probably has asbestos sheets on it so they will have to remove that piece by piece first before they demolish the rest of the stand

[cousin kev]

Did any work start today then on the Glentoran stand does anybody know.

The roof probably has asbestos sheets on it so they will have to remove that piece by piece first before they demolish the rest of the stand

They found Japanese knotweed too.