The Irish Times

How will people get in and out of the vast sports campus now being planned for Abbotstown? That is by far the most critical question overhanging the Taoiseach's grand project - and, despite yesterday's unveiling of a draft master plan for the 500-acre site, it is a question that the promoters have yet to answer. Incredibly, the original feasibility study calculated that 45 per cent of the 80,000 spectators attending a major event at the proposed national stadium would travel to Abbotstown by car, generating a "requirement" for no less than 14,400 parking spaces - half of them on-site and the rest in an overflow car-park at Dunsink.