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Belfast Finds New Fan Zone For Northern Ireland, Republic Of Ireland Supporters

A new fan zone has been found in Belfast "to accommodate thousands of Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland supporters" wanting to watch the knockout matches of Euro 2016 on giant TV screens this weekend, according to Henry McDonald of the London GUARDIAN. It is understood it will cost the Belfast city council at least £100,000 ($149,000) and that bar facilities "have not yet been agreed." The Titanic Slipways quarter on Belfast Lough, where both sets of fans watched their national teams take on Germany and Italy this week, "was booked for rock concerts on Saturday and Sunday so was unavailable." The first and deputy first ministers of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness, "held an emergency meeting earlier on Thursday to seek an alternative fan zone venue." Foster tweeted earlier on Thursday that the problem would be "sorted" and she had asked Belfast city council "to come up with an alternative location." Belfast Lord Mayor Brian Kingston had suggested that the SSE Arena near the Titanic quarter "might have been a possible alternative," but Belfast city council later announced that playing fields at Boucher Road in the south of the city "had been chosen as the new fan zone" (GUARDIAN, 6/23). 

WORKING OVERNIGHT: SKY SPORTS reported UEFA has been "working through the night to improve the state of the pitches" ahead of the Euro 2016 knockout stages. Less than an hour after the end of the Ireland vs. Italy game in Lille, UEFA's team of pitch consultants -- led by Richard Hayden -- "began work to replace the playing surface ahead of Sunday's match at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium between Germany and Slovakia." They have "already stripped the old turf and started replacing it with a new surface" which has been specially grown in the Netherlands. Hayden and his team "will then head for Marseille to carry out running repairs at the Stade Velodrome" (SKY SPORTS, 6/23).

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