Wanted: Prison Site Near Belfast
Apparently Magilligan prison is crumbling and the government is discussing where a replacement might be built.
Magilligan is to be replaced with a new £150m 1,000 cell jail. Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Chairman, Sir Patrick Cormack, said that a senior prison official told the committee one of the essential criteria was the new jail was within 30 miles of Belfast.
Wait a minute… isn’t there a site in that area that is capable of holding a prison. If memory serves correctly there used to be a prison somewhere within 30 miles of Belfast on a site that is currently vacant.
It’s an obvious solution I know, but bare with me. What’s to say we go ahead and build the prison on the prison site and put the national stadium somewhere where people will actually be able to get to it?
End the White Elephant farce. Sign the Stadium For Belfast Petition.