Surveyors are on the site and there is a timetable for substantive work to start before the summer with completion in time to satisfy UEFA ahead of Casement Park in Belfast staging games in the 2028 Euro Finals.
That may be the carrot that has got the development over the line but this will be built primarily though clearly not exclusively as a GAA Stadium.
DUP Assembly Member Jim Shannon has put out a figure that the original building cost of £77 million has now escalated to £220 million but that seems to be a figure plucked from the air.
More realistic estimates are in the region of £110 million but it should not be that difficult to pin a cost before the first work is undertaken.
More than a decade ago the UK Government pledged funding to redevelop three venues in Belfast, Ravenhill now the Kingspan Stadium, Windsor Park, now the National Stadium at Windsor Park and Casement Park.
Rugby and Soccer were built and have been a great success but Casement Park got mired in planning and political shenanigans.
Now it is moving, albeit without a firm handle on the financial side. The original offer from Westminster is understood to have been a shade north of £60 million. The GAA itself has commited and accounted for £15 million and yesterday the Irish Government, as part of an overall allocation to cross border projects of €800 million pledged €50 million.
Those three alone would cover the best estimates of the cost and maybe there are other elements tied into the Euro 28 staging that could help as well.
There has been a campaign among sections of the Northern Ireland fan base about not going to games there but with the alternative being Dublin, and the pragmatic reality of the majority of the population that should pass.
It might not be immaterial that Roger Casement was born into an Ulster Protestant family and served as a British Consul in his diplomatic career. Subsequent actions would raise understandable unease in certain circles but even so, the stadium will be named as Belfast Stadium for the games under the management of UEFA.
This really is too good of an opportunity to fail in getting it over the line, and apart from the GAA needs, to pass up staging games in the second biggest football tournament in the world would be a hard sell to those born into a peaceful Northern Ireland.
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