The Irish Times

Fully covered seating and pedestrian walkways under the railway line would be among the features of a new Lansdowne Road stadium, according to plans presented yesterday by the FAI and the IRFU. The two sporting bodies envisage a completely new arena with 50,000 seats, incorporating three-tiered structures in place of the existing East and West Stands, and single-tiered stands at either end of the pitch. A "sweeping, translucent roof" would help to make the venue "a significant aesthetic improvement" on the existing structure, the organisations say. But they also insist that a priority of the design was to minimise the impact of the development on local residents