Antrim football manager Lenny Harbinson has lamented the loss of Casement Park.

The Belfast venue would have hosted Antrim's potential Ulster SFC quarter-final against Tyrone this summer if it hadn't been out of commission for the past number of years and is now in a sorry state as redevelopment plans remain stalled. 

"If it's going to be an Ulster championship match, they're going to anticipate - depending on who you're playing - between five and 10,000 people. The grounds that are fit for purpose and close by are the likes of Armagh and Newry," Harbinson noted in the Irish News.

"It's frustrating from the point of view that we don't have Casement as our home venue, and unfortunately a generation of footballers have missed out on the opportunity to play in what was once a great arena.

"That's very disappointing from a management point of view - who wouldn't want to manage a team and be involved in a new Casement? From a practical point of view, having your own dressing room, having your analytics installed in that dressing room to allow and facilitate visual coaching, we can't do all that because we don't have our own dressing room."

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