Lansdowne’s facelift will doom Bertie Bowl

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s pet project, the so-called Bertie Bowl, will now not go ahead with the decision to transform a dilapidated Lansdowne Road into a modern 50,000 all-seater facility seen as a victory for Fianna Fail’s coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats.
The PDs had balked at Ahern’s insistence that a national stadium should be built on a greenfield site at Abbotstown, claiming that the projected cost of