“We won’t be in a position to host the Cork/Tipperary game because our schedule is for July and it's a tight schedule as it is. So it would have to be an away fixture or a neutral fixture,” Cork chairman Ger Lane told Red FM.

“It's likely this game will be in the month of May so it would be out of the question that we would be able to host such a game six weeks in advance of the current deadline to have the stadium completed.

“We have entered into home and away arrangements with a number of counties and Tipperary are one of those. Thurles is still a great venue from a Cork point of view.

“If we travel away to Tipperary it just means we're owed a further game by Tipperary, when the stadium is opened.”

As seen in the above video, the City End Terrace is beginning to be built up as construction work also starts on the Blackrock End Terrace.

Here’s how the demolition and reconstruction has progressed to this point...

September 2016

The roof over the ‘uncovered’ Northern Stand has been completed this month, while work begins on building up the City End terrace.

Meanwhile the chair of the Cork County Board’s stadium business committee John Mullins told the Irish Examiner that the expenditure won’t take from investment in Cork teams.

He added that the redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh will be “as good a consumer experience as anything in the country.”

August 2016

A start on the roof over the previously uncovered stand is the most eye-catching expansion this month, although the skeletal terrace structures still remain.

The multi-storey main stand, which will house dressing rooms, corporate boxes, restaurants, a new press box, gym and museum, continues to bulk up.

June 2016

Building work is going full steam ahead as the Northern and Southern Stands begin to form the familiar bowl-shape of the Ballintemple stadium.

Under the shadow of the tower cranes at either side of the still-intact field, trucks carry in the ready-made frame supports for the stands.

April 2016

Behind schedule but up and running, Páric Uí Chaoimh is a hive of activity as building work is underway.

January 2016

The first of the tower cranes was in position by the start of the new year as the demolition work expanded to all four sides of the ground, with corrosion of steel reinforcements cited among the reasons for the extra demolition.

September 2015

Here’s a close up of some demolition work, after the levelling of the uncovered Northern Stand was added to the plans.

May 2015

Large sections of the covered Southern Stand were already removed within a month of demolition work commencing.

April 2015

In case you’ve forgotten, here’s what the old stadium looked like in its final moments before being demolished.

There’s a pic of the stadium’s initial construction, back in 1975, in there too, but with less big cranes visible than are there today.