Government will not fund Casement rebuild for 2028

The chances of Northern Ireland hosting matches astatine nan Euro 2028 shot tourney look to person gone.

The UK authorities announced connected Friday nighttime that nan estimated costs of rebuilding Casement Park stadium successful Belfast could beryllium much than £400m.

The authorities said it will not beryllium providing backing to redevelop nan stadium successful clip for nan tournament.

It said location was a "significant risk" that nan stadium would not beryllium built successful time.

The announcement was made successful a associated missive from NI Secretary Hilary Benn and Sports Minister Lisa Nandy to Stormont Minister Gordon Lyons, who is successful complaint of athletics successful Northern Ireland.

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