Plans to redevelop Casement Park have stalled due to the absence of a government in Northern Ireland.

Leo O'Reilly, the permanent secretary at the Department for Communities (DfC), has informed SDLP MLA and former Armagh All-Ireland winning defender Justin McNulty in a letter that the multi-million pound project cannot proceed without Ministers. 

"It is unacceptable that the ongoing political stalemate is continuing to have a serious impact on these projects and our sports," McNulty told the Irish News.

"Those in sport, both in the administration and indeed the volunteers in Gaelic games across Ulster, are getting agitated and frustrated by the lack of progress on Casement. 

"The feeling is the same in the soccer community. The lack of an executive at Stormont is hitting every part of this community and there seems little chance of progress in the near future."

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