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MEATH COUNTY BOARD has put out a call for interested parties to design a new stand for the county’s main stadium in Navan.
A tender competition was launched last week by the county board seeking submissions to design a new north stand for Pairc Tailteann, in place of the existing terrace.
Plans to redevelop the famous old ground, originally constructed in 1935, were first approved in February of this year, with the county board receiving planning permission to construct a new 21,000 capacity stadium on the site.
The tender launched last Thursday for the first phase of the redevelopment is calling for expressions of interest from relevant parties to be submitted by this Friday, 31 August.
From there the county board will seek a shortlist of eight contractors.
The new stand is slated to have between 4,000 and 7,000 seats as its capacity, and will be constructed in one or two phases.
Meanwhile, the overall budget for the redevelopment is understood to be in the region of €20 million, with Meath’s more-than-50 clubs giving their backing for the scheme following the granting of planning permission earlier this year.
The ground’s current stand sits on the opposite side of the pitch to the main terrace. Both ends of the ground, which are neither terraced nor contain seating, are currently considered to be out-of-bounds for health and safety reasons.
The new tender will incorporate the (optional) construction of new terracing, pitch lighting, car park facilities, and works to the existing stand.
Pairc Tailteann currently has a capacity of in the region of 15,000.
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Where are all the hysterical pundits who claimed the world was on fire, when we had a few nice days last Summer?
@west awake: they’re waiting in the side lines to announce the ever selective climate “change” hysteria. You know that change thing that only effects summers (not winters funnily enough). Yet still does not effect summer berries etc arriving on cue every year too.
Instead of trying to investigate the why and the how of these forest fires they just cackle a cult like tune of “it’s man made climate change” in unison. If you challenge their so called science (new age version) you are called a trump fan or something (like juvenile toddlers)
Them ?
@west awake: what about the unusual heatwave in Asia where they are facing the highest recorded temperatures in history for a month of April or what about the severe droughts faced by the likes of Morocco? Maybe that is where these pundits are, informing themselves.
@ForrestG45: @ForrestG45: yeah it’s always warm in those places. Natural climate. However ….. add exaggerated temperature testing and a big dose of hysterical reporting / media propaganda (George Lee anyone ?) and hey presto we have “climate change” narrative for naive people to latch onto.
@west awake: If you don’t want to get it then you’re never gonna get it.
@ForrestG45: What about them? The weather is always varied.
@ForrestG45: Droughts in Morocco!? My god, we’re doomed!
Denyers be denying. I love these chats re the weather though. It shows how far we’ve all come. Moore’s Almanac said it best when it said… there’ll always be weather, whether or not we weather it. Ok I made that up.
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