Those reluctant to embrace the prospect of reconciliation between two communities only too willing to oppose the proposed redevelopment of Casement Park for their own ends
Those reluctant to embrace the prospect of reconciliation ready and willing to oppose the proposed development of the GAA ground for their own endsAs Euro 2024 leaves the pool stages behind and pivots towards the knockout phase, it seems an appropriate time to pause and lament how some politicians have allowed the sabotage of the 2028 event taking place in Casement Park.
His remarks came in the wake of opposition from the former Democratic Unionist Party leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, to the spending of British taxpayers’ money on the redevelopment of the GAA grounds in Belfast, one of the proposed venues for the soccer tournament.
“This is an intolerable situation,” said Jim Allister of the Traditional Unionist Voice, who are firmly against the GAA redevelopment being partly built with taxpayers’ money. That seems far from certain now and in May it was reported that British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Heaton-Harris had refused to honour that commitment.
In 1988 two British soldiers, who drove into an IRA funeral on the Andersonstown Road, were beaten at the entrance to the stadium before being taken to nearby waste ground and shot dead. He argued that too many people have too much to lose if the society is reconciled and included “many of our politicians, perpetually angry commentators, and self-styled ‘influencers’”.
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