The sorry saga over the stalled redevelopment of Casement Park is deep into extra time, but must surely now be reaching the final whistle.
The GAA ground in West Belfast has lain derelict for almost a decade amid botched efforts to build a new stadium on the site.
With the dismissal this week of a legal challenge by a residents' group to planning approval, construction has been given the green light.
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But there is one main hurdle left to overcome, and it could be a major stumbling block: Money.
The budget originally agreed for the stadium was around £77million, with Stormont pledging £62million and the GAA providing £15million.
However, the most recent projected cost from the Department for Communities was approximately £110million.
That figure was released three years ago. Since then, the construction industry has been hit by rising costs of materials.
Last year, then First Minister Paul Givan said the cost of the Casement Park project could stand at more than £140million - almost double its original budget.
So how will it be paid for?
The GAA has placed the onus on Stormont, insisting the sporting association does not intend to increase its financial contribution.
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey and her department were somewhat ambiguous this week on the funding question.
Asked whether approval from the Stormont Executive would be needed to release extra cash, Ms Hargey insisted the devolved administration has already signed off on the wider project.
She said the funding for Casement was "secure". Her department failed to give a direct answer to the same question, saying the next stage is to "complete the business case and finalise overall costs".
But the department has previously acknowledged approval would be required from the full power-sharing Executive to release more funds.
It put forward this point in response to the Information Commissioner's Office as it attempted to defend refusing to make public the latest projected cost of the build.
With no Executive in place because of the DUP's ongoing boycott over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol, the allocation of additional funding is left in limbo.
There needs to be a negotiation between the GAA and Stormont on how to split the multi-million-pound shortfall, as it is surely unsustainable for the GAA to refuse to increase its spending.
Supporters of the redevelopment have highlighted its long-term benefits, bringing jobs and investment to West Belfast and growing the local economy.
But amid competing government priorities and households faced with increasing cost-of-living pressures, Stormont parties could struggle to justify writing a blank cheque for the GAA.
The worry for fans eager to see and play matches again at Casement is that it now becomes caught up in a wider dispute over the restoration of the Executive.
While there is general cross-party support for the project, some MLAs have questioned the scale of public funding it should receive.
Delays in a £36million programme to upgrade sub-regional soccer stadia have prompted calls for the scheme to receive more money if funding is increased for Casement.
It has been four weeks since the Assembly election. The longer the power-sharing impasse rumbles on, the more that other issues could become pulled into the mix.
When Sinn Féin collapsed the Executive in 2017, the row centred on the RHI scandal and demands for Irish language legislation.
By 2020, the New Decade New Approach agreement which restored devolved government contained more than 80 wide-ranging commitments between the parties.
Ulster GAA now hopes to have Casement ready for matches by 2025 - 16 years after first announcing its intention to build a new provincial stadium.
After so many setbacks over the years and previous timeframes missed, it is difficult to believe this date marker will prove to be any different.
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