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Should Gaa Clubs In Dublin Look For Dublin City Council To Set Up Shamrock Rovers Type Grounds For All Gaa Clubs

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Tomsmith here from Cavan

We here in Cavan are lucky that moist Clubs own their own grounds but away up in Dublin it is so different.
I understand that a soccer club got DCC to build a stadium for use by a soccer team.
I know we are lucky away down the Country that the price of land is a lot lower but all the same to most farmers land is wealth and as such few dont like to part with land.
Indeed the great Mrs T often said that a few of her Girlfriends got a man because they had land and bog.
But I have often seen away up in Dublin the scarcity of grounds that Gaa Clubs have and the trouble with parking ect.
I just wonder would a deputation to Dublin City Council to get them to build Club houses and playing fields like the one in Tallagh be an idea.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3984 - 16/11/2023 12:52:00    2513336

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Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith here from Cavan

We here in Cavan are lucky that moist Clubs own their own grounds but away up in Dublin it is so different.
I understand that a soccer club got DCC to build a stadium for use by a soccer team.
I know we are lucky away down the Country that the price of land is a lot lower but all the same to most farmers land is wealth and as such few dont like to part with land.
Indeed the great Mrs T often said that a few of her Girlfriends got a man because they had land and bog.
But I have often seen away up in Dublin the scarcity of grounds that Gaa Clubs have and the trouble with parking ect.
I just wonder would a deputation to Dublin City Council to get them to build Club houses and playing fields like the one in Tallagh be an idea."
DCC didn't pay for Tallaght stadium. The Dept of Arts, Sports and Tourism paid the largest part.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14077 - 16/11/2023 14:23:37    2513359

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Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith here from Cavan

We here in Cavan are lucky that moist Clubs own their own grounds but away up in Dublin it is so different.
I understand that a soccer club got DCC to build a stadium for use by a soccer team.
I know we are lucky away down the Country that the price of land is a lot lower but all the same to most farmers land is wealth and as such few dont like to part with land.
Indeed the great Mrs T often said that a few of her Girlfriends got a man because they had land and bog.
But I have often seen away up in Dublin the scarcity of grounds that Gaa Clubs have and the trouble with parking ect.
I just wonder would a deputation to Dublin City Council to get them to build Club houses and playing fields like the one in Tallagh be an idea."
SDCC didn't pay for Tallaght stadium. The Dept of Arts, Sports and Tourism paid the largest part. And Thomas Davis planning objection got thrown out because they had got significant grants/facilities from SDCC.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14077 - 16/11/2023 14:25:22    2513360

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Tomsmith I seem to remember that tallaghtstadium.ie
https://www.tallaghtstadium.ie/our-history
Our History - Tallaght Stadium
WebOur History On the 10 th of February 1997 South Dublin County Council passed a resolution to lease 12.18 acres at Whitestown Way to Shamrock Rovers for the construction of a new Stadium to replace their former home, Glenmalure Park in Milltown which they had left …

I may be wromg but I felt Dublin CC had a large input into this stadium

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3984 - 16/11/2023 15:27:29    2513370

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Bohemians are the worst spongers. Total state dependents with sponsorship from a build to rent landord/developer. How that fits with their politics I am not certain.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3204 - 16/11/2023 15:28:32    2513371

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Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith here from Cavan

We here in Cavan are lucky that moist Clubs own their own grounds but away up in Dublin it is so different.
I understand that a soccer club got DCC to build a stadium for use by a soccer team.
I know we are lucky away down the Country that the price of land is a lot lower but all the same to most farmers land is wealth and as such few dont like to part with land.
Indeed the great Mrs T often said that a few of her Girlfriends got a man because they had land and bog.
But I have often seen away up in Dublin the scarcity of grounds that Gaa Clubs have and the trouble with parking ect.
I just wonder would a deputation to Dublin City Council to get them to build Club houses and playing fields like the one in Tallagh be an idea."
ExiledInWex here tom, in Wexford.
Most clubs in Dublin have good to very good facilities. My alma mater have improved their facilities no end since my playing days ended.
"Indeed the great Mrs T often said that a few of her Girlfriends got a man because they had land and bog."
You suggesting that the men in Cavan were attracted by a woman with a few shillings, is it?

ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1264 - 16/11/2023 15:29:21    2513372

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Dont entertain this fool

Thejampot (Leitrim) - Posts: 346 - 16/11/2023 15:29:47    2513373

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Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith I seem to remember that tallaghtstadium.ie
https://www.tallaghtstadium.ie/our-history
Our History - Tallaght Stadium
WebOur History On the 10 th of February 1997 South Dublin County Council passed a resolution to lease 12.18 acres at Whitestown Way to Shamrock Rovers for the construction of a new Stadium to replace their former home, Glenmalure Park in Milltown which they had left …

I may be wromg but I felt Dublin CC had a large input into this stadium"
Leased the land initially. Then it all stopped for years.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14077 - 16/11/2023 15:44:26    2513379

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Tomsmith here

ExiledInWex here tom, in Wexford.
Most clubs in Dublin have good to very good facilities. My alma mater have improved their facilities no end since my playing days ended.
"Indeed the great Mrs T often said that a few of her Girlfriends got a man because they had land and bog."
You suggesting that the men in Cavan were attracted by a woman with a few shillings, is it?
ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1043

Tomsmith back live with you..
Exiled from Wexford.... Naw Naw exiled what I was sayng is that land in Cavan is also valuable and that if a flousey had a bit of land even it was bog she would be attractive to Cavan men .
For that reason I was saying that Cavan land is considered valuable and I was was quoting the great Mrs T when I said some of her friends had added attraction because they wee falling into land.
I know its odious but the great Mts T said it happened in the past that land was as good as money in the Bank to a single Girl, where a matchmaker was concerned.
Some of his questions to asingle Girl would feature on her expectations , and then her assets .

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3984 - 16/11/2023 16:17:31    2513388

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Replying To Thejampot:  "Dont entertain this fool"
I can only imagine the Chaos and the resignations at some (any) club's a.g.m if it was found that a certain Tom Smith's cronies had somehow managed to get him opted to the committee.

No reply's please for the obvious reason.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3081 - 17/11/2023 09:18:33    2513441

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Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith here from Cavan

We here in Cavan are lucky that moist Clubs own their own grounds but away up in Dublin it is so different.
I understand that a soccer club got DCC to build a stadium for use by a soccer team.
I know we are lucky away down the Country that the price of land is a lot lower but all the same to most farmers land is wealth and as such few dont like to part with land.
Indeed the great Mrs T often said that a few of her Girlfriends got a man because they had land and bog.
But I have often seen away up in Dublin the scarcity of grounds that Gaa Clubs have and the trouble with parking ect.
I just wonder would a deputation to Dublin City Council to get them to build Club houses and playing fields like the one in Tallagh be an idea."
First off there are 4 councils in greater Dublin. None have the money, resources or inclination to build GAA clubhouses. What they do is try and build sports facillites to accommodate as many sports as possible. Clubs no matter their size are not interested in Stadiums but are struggling to get basic pitches.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4943 - 18/11/2023 01:05:22    2513570

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Replying To arock:  "First off there are 4 councils in greater Dublin. None have the money, resources or inclination to build GAA clubhouses. What they do is try and build sports facillites to accommodate as many sports as possible. Clubs no matter their size are not interested in Stadiums but are struggling to get basic pitches."
Tomsmith here

What about or who built the one for Shamrock Rovers .
Did a Gaa club try and even went to Court to get into it

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3984 - 18/11/2023 16:31:21    2513641

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