English Premier League club Everton FC will have a piece of Offaly in its new stadium. Thousands of pieces, in fact!

That's because local company Banagher Precast Concrete has been working since last year on the construction of precast terracing and other units that are being shipped from Offaly to Liverpool for use in the club's new £500m waterfront home.

Last month, Everton announced that on the one-year anniversary of work starting on the stadium build, the first terracing unit, manufactured by the Banagher company, had been installed in the north stand.

Banagher Precast Concrete said it was supplying more than 6,000 units for use in the high-profile project, which is due to be completed in two years' time.

The stadium, which will have a capacity of over 52,000, will replace Everton's longstanding home venue of Goodison Park.

"The first of our 2,400 terracing units were installed recently in Everton Football Club," Banagher Precast Concrete announced last week.

"We are proud to be co-delivering the precast with and for our client, Laing O'Rourke. On this project, we have been steadily manufacturing elements since August 2021 as we're delivering over 6,000 units."

The local firm said that, in addition to the terracing, the units it was supplying for the project included "stairs, rakers, infill steps, vomitory walls, beams and plaza steps."

Banagher Precast Concrete has been operating for more than 70 years and is a significant employer in the county.

The Everton FC project is not the first stadium development the company has worked on. It previously provided precast materials used in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork, Thomond Park in Limerick, and the Copper Box Arena which was one of the venues for the 2012 Olympics in London.

"Everton is our latest venture, and one we already know we’ll be immensely proud of," said the company.

Colin Chong, Everton FC’s Chief Stadium Development Officer, said the project would be a "magnificent" new home for the club when completed.

"By the time the external façade is in place, people will really begin to be able to make out the final form that our jaw-dropping new stadium will take," he said.

He also spoke about the high standard of the concrete and the other materials being used in the development.

"This is a quality build. The groundworks and dock infill are industry-leading, steel is marine grade quality, the concrete is designed to resist marine moisture and everything about this stadium is built to last," he said.

"An awful lot of the cost goes into that, and people won’t see it, but this is a robust engineering product that is going to be the future for generations of Everton fans."