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Mon 04 Apr 2007Council moves to ease Lansdowne logjamDublin City Council is to hold an extraordinary meeting today to decide whether to give the developers of the 50,000-seater Lansdowne Road stadium a half-acre strip of land essential for the construction of the stadium.The meeting of the council's south east area committee has been called under pressure from the Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company (LRSDC) which needs an urgent decision on the land to allow building to get under way.