“What we have been told [by the Government] both informally and formally, is that they’ll react to the submission inside the next month,” Rooney told the media yesterday. “After that we’re just hopeful.”
There is also a possibility that both organisations might plump for a construction on the current Lansdowne Road site.
“We’ve made a strong case for [the stadium’s] construction, and we believe that it has to be large enough to cope with the bigger crowds that ourselves and the IRFU can attract ... We could have sold far more than the 36,000 seats in Lansdowne Road for last week’s two qualifiers and we could easily sell twice that number for the Russia game.”