Government will not fund Casement rebuild for 2028

The chances of Northern Ireland hosting matches astatine the Euro 2028 shot tourney look to person gone.

The UK authorities announced connected Friday nighttime that the estimated outgo of rebuilding Casement Park stadium successful Belfast could beryllium much than £400m.

The authorities said it volition not beryllium providing backing to redevelop the stadium successful clip for the tournament.

It said determination was a "significant risk" that the stadium would not beryllium built successful time.

The announcement was made successful a associated missive from NI Secretary Hilary Benn and Sports Minister Lisa Nandy to Stormont Minister Gordon Lyons, who is successful complaint of athletics successful Northern Ireland.

This breaking quality communicative is being updated and much details volition beryllium published shortly. Please refresh the leafage for the fullest version.

You tin person Breaking News connected a smartphone oregon tablet via the BBC News App. You tin besides travel @BBCBreaking connected Twitter to get the latest alerts.