Category: Archive
February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
To any microphone that happened into his orbit back then, Ahern confirmed this was no castle in the air but something that his government would put in place for the benefit of future generations. Marvelous rhetoric, yet no matter how many spins were put on it, we couldn’t help laughing at the sheer arrogant folly of it all.
Over the coming months, the minister for sport at the time, Jim McDaid, took up the promotional slack and did more harm than good. He told the Dail and RTE television that the new stadium would one day host the Champions League final, an event he baldly stated was worth