Debate contribution: Casement Park
Debate contribution by Ms Michelle O'Neill on .
- MLA
- Ms Michelle O'Neill
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 19 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Casement Park
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5795676
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Commiserations to Rossa, but at least your team got to the final. As I said, it is absolutely a flagship project, and it must be delivered. We need to continue to work with the GAA, because we want to see today's generation have the chance to play at that ground. Gaels in Antrim have grown up without that chance — it has been so long — and it has to be put right, which means that we have to do everything that we can. Imagine what a redeveloped Casement Park will do not just for the game and for young Gaels across the board but for the entire local community, the economy, job creation, construction work and everything else that comes with it. I mentioned the progress that has been made on the site, and I want us to continue to build on that momentum. Casement will give the whole of Antrim and Ulster GAA a huge lift. We continue to work with the Ulster council of the GAA and the local community on the project, and I, like you, look forward to the day when Antrim and Ulster finals are played at Casement Park.
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