The Irish Times

The procedures being used to select architects for the national stadium and sports campus at Abbotstown, Co Dublin, have been described as "very incongruous" by the chief executive of the Dublin International Sports Council. Mr Jonathan Irwin was particularly critical of the decision by Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Ltd (CSID) to select panels of architects for the elements of the £500 million project when most of the prospective bidders for the contract already had their own. "Each and every one of the consortiums who have progressed to outline bid stage have retained their own architects, all of whom have international reputations and have designed international sports stadiums around the world", Mr Irwin told The Irish Times.