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BASKETBALL IRELAND HAVE announced plans for a €35 million redevelopment of the National Basketball Arena, including the doubling of capacity to 3,300.
The proposed work is set to get underway in the summer of 2025, taking an expected 18 months to complete before the start of the 2026/27 season.
The 8,000 square metre facility will have space for four basketball courts, which will be fully accessible and inclusive for all sports participants. The project also has the support of Badminton Ireland, Irish Squash and Volleyball Ireland, who have all expressed an interest in using the new state-of-the-art amenity.
“The new Arena will provide a best-in-class indoor sports facility, which will cater for multiple sports, along with it being a premium indoor event space,” Basketball Ireland CEO, John Feehan said following the announcement as planning permission is submitted today, 19 December.
“It will be the home of Irish basketball and illustrates the passion and drive within the organisation to continue the growth of the game. Sport plays such a vital role in Irish society and this will be a wonderful resource, not just for the local community, but for the country as a whole.”
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Good news, it doesn’t take long for the anti everything brigade to make an appearance.
Good Stuff!
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: €23,000 per extra seat. Someone is doing well.
@Ger Murphy: try read all the article maybe that will explain a bit more to you
@CP: Or put another way the 8000sq meter complex works out at €4,375 per sq meter.
A new home costs pproximately €2,200 per sq meter to build.
Someone is creaming it.
@Ger Murphy: do you think the services and spec of an arena are the same as a house? Fit many fire doors in your house? How’s that sprinkler system in your living room? Or the passive smoke ducts? Did new homes come with HVAC, PA systems, emergency lighting? How much was the plant room in your house? How much was the sound proofing you had to do? Sounds like somebody hasn’t a notion about building if you think comparing the cost of a house to public sports centre makes even the slightest bit of sense. How bu
Jaysus I haven’t been in there since I was a kid in primary school, great to hear it’s getting invested in
Money should be spent on homes for the homeless
@sleepy joe: Go back to sleep Joe.
@sleepy joe: You’re problem the same type of person who says there is nothing for our youth to be doing. Would you ever give it a break? Of course the Government should be doing something for the homeless/homelessness situation. People like you are impossible to please. Who’d want to be a politician if everyone is like you? And I am not aligned to any party whatsoever.
@sleepy joe: Can we open your home to refugees? Always one to moan.
Good work.
Not allowed to comment on Martin’s rebuke of two FF councillors for telling the truth.
35,000,000 for an extra 1650 seats, roughly €22,000 a seat. IKEA sells folding chairs for €18
@SOCOMJON: so an extra 3 courts and the building around it come free with the seats do they u wally
@SOCOMJON: Not very bright, are you?
@SOCOMJON: do ikea also provide all the cables, pipework, ductwork, fire suppression, fire prevention, soundproofing, changing rooms, concrete, steel and the actual workers in that 18 euro a pop price?
@Tom Dillon: Ah Tom it was a little joke, maybe put down the phone and go get some air
I’m sure if the government have anything to do to this, the cheque will bounce
House the refugees
@paddy fc: We could do that in addition if dckhds stop burning down other people’s property.
@Tom Dillon: look after our own 1st
@Tom Dillon: that was an act of god to protect the local people :)
Can the 3arena host basketball/ volleyball ? I have never been so I dont know how the space can be inter- changed
Other than comment on here, what do the ‘look after our own’ actually do if anything at all, to look after our own?
@Sun Rise: absolutely nothing, these are the people that wouldn’t spit on there “own” if they were on fire.
A good investment.
Amazing news..I remember doing camps there in the 90s with Ed Randolph and Jerome Westbrooks..a super facility..great memories.
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