David Courell
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 21 May
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But when you look across the breadth of Euro 2028 across what at that point in time was five countries, it's now down to four with Northern Ireland no longer featuring.
UEFA wanted the right mix of stadia across the different countries and having two in Dublin was not preferential for them so we fell back to the Aviva Stadium but by virtue of that we're delighted to be hosting seven games in the Aviva On that conversation was there any talk of
I think you need to recognise, you know, the Aviva Stadium is designed for football.
This is a football tournament and it is the home of football in this country.
So there was never a question mark around the Aviva Stadium's presence in the bid.
But also it's a good capacity stadium.
Not every stadium needs to be 70,000, 80,000 and you need a mix when you're delivering tournaments like this.
So no, UEFA are quite comfortable and as I said, I think their experience is in both preparing for Euro 2020, which sadly Ireland didn't host, but also the execution of Europa League 2024.
And we're actually currently in a bidding process to host the Women's Champions League Final 2029.
So UEFA have a lot of experience with the stadium and have huge confidence.
No, none whatsoever.
I think one of the unique selling points of Dublin is that the stadium's within walking distance.
So on average, for a match day, we might see 70% of fans coming via public transport.
But for major finals, you would see that up on 85%, 90%.
So that's something that UEFA really embrace with the social, economic, societal aspects of it as well.
Prince?
Can you say now with confidence that the dark days of Irish football are behind us?
Yes, without doubt.
I think when I look to the future, I can only see a bright future ahead of us.
I think the reality is we're not out of the woods in the sense of, yes, we still have a huge volume of debt at 36.5 million.
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