An Irish National Stadium!
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Just heard on the news that Bohemians Football Club are to sell their ground in Phibsboro and move to middle class Castleknock where they’ll have a new stadium built.
(Anyone remeber the Sonas centre once planned for here.)@niall murphy wrote:
I have no problem with Dublin people. Its just there exists an attitude that everywhere that isnt Dublin is equal to “down the country”!!
This is totally off topic so I shall stop now.
I won’t . I think we need to be very clear that once you step over the dividing line of county dublin , you are into a wilderness of inbreeding, violence, and bog . I mean de state of these muuk savages.
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Just heard on the news that Bohemians Football Club are to sell their ground in Phibsboro and move to middle class Castleknock where they’ll have a new stadium built.
Does anyone remember a football team called Shamrock Rovers who used to be champions and then they got involved in a deal like this
Thomond Park – What’s the story with your namesake in Limerick. Last I heard, they had problems securing sites which was in turn limiting their expansion plans.
Re Dalymount – I am not privy to the Bohs deal, but it sounds too good to be true. As far as I was aware, the FAI wanted Dalymount to be one of the key football gounds in the city, to be shared by Bohs and Shelbourne. Rovers new home at Tallaght being the other, to be shared by Rovers and St. Pats. Thus, Richmond Park at Inchicore and Shels Tolka Park were to be consigned to the same fate as Milltown. This move by Bohs throws a spanner in those particular plans I guess.
In relation to Bohs moving, I guess the only thing I can say is that at least they will only move when the new stadium at Castleknock is completed (unlike Rovers, who went nomadic the moment the ground shut). I personally would prefer to see Dalymount redeveloped properly…it is one of the few city center football grounds. On the flip side, it is Bohs’ ground and if they want to flog it and get a spanking new stadium with a large population base, then why not. Only thing is, I imagine that the planned 10k seat stadium will be relatively basic, have the atmosphere of a cow shed, and fail to attract a substantial following. I hate to say it, but league of Ireland clubs rarely attract attendances of over 5k.From what I understand the locals in Kileely and the IRFU are about €50k a unit away from a deal which in the greater scheme of things is not a lot of money. The Munster Branch should sell the naming rights for the newly developed stadium as it would be worth a bundle given that Thomond always seems to feature at the business end of the Heineken cup which has a large audience accross four major markets.
I also agree with a redevelopment of Dalymount being preferable and this move surprises me as there have been many previous plans some good for this ground that allowed both a new ground and development. It looks like this site has been to the architects what the tribunals have been to the lawyers.
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