SportsGround Developments

goconn wrote: Didn't we have over 9000 attend that very first H-Cup game versus Toulouse ?

Perhaps the Dogs could move out to to the Racecourse,like its done in Dundalk? I don't have much of a problem with the track,we're closer to the pitch than they are in Glasgow anyway.If the dogs want to come to a hypothetical new stadium with Connacht,let them,it'll be a new design anyway.

I don't see why the Galway FA would contribute to a new stadium.The biggest crowd Galway United can attract is about 5,000 and their average is about 1,200,in league with an average of 1,500. The GAA seem quite limited in what they can do with Pearse Stadium and besides the odd match against Mayo their attendance is quite low,maybe they'd be a better target? (If the old rule can be broken)

The docks sounds like a great idea,if the Sportsground was sold it would probably generate quite a bit of Cash but that leaves the problem of OLBC and training grounds for Connacht. If Musgrave can find funding we should be able too, I wouldn't mind heading out to LifeStyleSports stadium if it got the place built

The only way the dogs would come into play with a new stadium is if they were to raze the current Sportsground in order to build a new stadium. Don't think anyone is suggesting that so Connacht would happily be free of the dogs with any move.

As far as the GAA, I don't think the old rule would come into play if they agreed to go into the venture together or agreed to lease the grounds from whatever organisation that ended up building the new stadium. They just don't want foreign sports being played on fields that they paid to build or at least secured the funding to build.

Connacht would see no money from the sale of the Sportsground since they have no ownership of it. It probably would suit them better that it was kept as is so they could continue to use it for training should they make a move to a docks stadium. They have put in a certain amount of money into the development of the training facilities there.

Apologies if it has been asked before, but who does own the Sportsground or what is the arrangement?

It was out of date as a ground in the 90's, never mind today!!!

Darragh wrote: Apologies if it has been asked before, but who does own the Sportsground or what is the arrangement?

It was out of date as a ground in the 90's, never mind today!!!

The 9000 seater bozic stadium in Hungary is gorgeous

I love roof on the Stadion GKS-u Jastrzębie (The 3rd Submission)
Roof would need to be another 10-15m though, has to be about 35m high as highest observed "garryowen" is 29.4m
I don't know why I'm getting so specific it's never going to happen

How smug would we be if we had a roofed stadium though

Only way I see us ever moving from the Sportsground is if the City of Galway build a municipal stadium for a number of organisations to use, (something like Scotstoun with the athletes track)
Sportsground could still be Administered / training base but games played at new location.
It is a catch 22 situation. Without Connacht Rugby the whole financial operation of the Sportsground is questionable but I can't see the City building a stadium if a direct result was the closure of the Dog track.
Other option is to sit tight, wait for the Dogs to go bust or loose funding and then take over the head lease from the Sportsground Trust.

If it had charitable status would it be on a separate register?

Here are it's submissions
€3.00 to look at its accounts

sea_point wrote:

He welcomed additional funding of €2.75m for the greyhound racing industry this year to bring its annual exchequer funding to €13.6m.

For the third year running the organisations which govern the three main team sports in this country – the FAI, GAA and IRFU – have had to accept a 5 per cent reduction in their funding from the Irish Sports Council following the announcement of a €7.4 million investment package from the Government yesterday.

This annual funding from the taxpayers, announced by Minister of State for Sport Michael Ring at the Aviva Stadium yesterday, is targeted at grassroots GAA, football and rugby through programmes aimed at encouraging more opportunities for young people to take part in field sports.

The package is worth €2.4 million to the GAA, €2.7 million to the FAI and €2.36 million to the IRFU.