Barco awarded contract to install Ireland's largest LED display

Located on the north side of Dublin, Croke Park stadium is home to Ireland’s National Sports, Gaelic Football and Hurling. The stadium is Ireland’s foremost multi-purpose venue for sporting events as well as social and corporate events. The installation of the Barco LED display solution is part of the final redevelopment phase of the complex, which will add a brand new SLite 22 video wall to the stadium. The stadium was completed in December 2004 and boasts a total capacity of 82,300 seats. This is divided into 69,000 seats and unique in a European venue of this size, a 13,300-terrace capacity. The multi-purpose stadium, which has a pitch size of almost 14,000 square metes, has recently been used to host one of the year’s biggest events: the Irish leg of U2’s Vertigo tour.

“Barco is very proud to be chosen as preferred solution provider for this major installation”, says Stephan Paridaen, President of Barco’s Media & Entertainment division. “There was fierce competition for the project and we believe that it was Barco’s ability to deliver a total display solution, including display hardware & software, control hardware & software as well as an integral service and support package that saw the client choose Barco over its competitors.”

“In the past, we used to rent in LED displays for specific events at Croke Park”, states Peter McKenna, Stadium Director, Croke Park. “We saw the benefits of having a display onsite, both for the fans’ experience as well as the value to sponsors who wish to bring their messages to such a well defined target audience, and decided this was an investment well worth making.”

For the realization of this project, Barco’s design and project management teams worked closely together to ensure all design, equipment, and service specifications were met to the customer’s satisfaction. This combination of product and installation knowledge among all divisions and the willingness to work closely together makes it possible for Barco to complete installations of any size or type in any location throughout the world.

Barco’s specialized visualization solutions targeted at the needs of the Media & Entertainment industries are used at high-profile venues and events. Barco counts names such as U2, Ferrari, Louis Vuitton, Madonna and Daimler Chrysler, Clearchannel Spectacolor, as well as installations for Merrill Lynch, Kinepolis, China Film Group, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Reliant Park Stadium (USA) and Miami Heat NBA amongst some of its key references.

About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, provides visualization and display solutions for professional markets. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco is active worldwide and has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco is quoted on Euronext Brussels and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company (Euronext: BAR; Reuters: BARBt.BR; Bloomberg: BAR BB).

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