The multi-sport venue also contains a 200m state-of-the-art indoor running track which will host the high-profile meets that used to take place in the Kelvin Hall, and where athletes can train throughout the year.
Yet it is precisely the fact that soldiers who were fighting one another not long ago now train together, or that firemen co-operate on a routine basis or that everyone from vets to central bankers meets with almost dreary regularity which constitutes the good news.