
A face only a mother could love, like a capsized battleship from the Galactic
Empire: Croke Park. The pic, taken from the east on 21 January 2015, shows the
Cusack Stand, refurbished and completed in 1995. The stadium has 11 "refreshment
stations" (bars) for the crowd, they were installed pretty recently, during the
redevelopment of the venue. "The Davin bar on Premium Level 5 is the largest bar
in Ireland and there are about 400 beer taps in total on this level." This in a
nation weighed down by obesity, drink driving and lung cancer... (Aviva Stadium
has "620 linear meters of beer line run" and "1,000 kegs & capacity to serve
90,000 pints" - needless to say, the class structure of Ireland irrevocably
built into both venues!)
Community and Handball Centre Croke Park; a case study of how things were (and
possibly still are) done in Dublin. And here an interesting
article
on continued GAA spending on oversized venues, the same tendency is met with
in large hospital projects in Dublin in recent years, possibly a lingering
aftereffect of the merry spending frenzy of the Celtic Tiger years.