Quotehttps://youtu.be/3rNaiBPNdUM
Footage here from the old Lourdes ground in drogheda (second half of video). Even then it was rough for a loi ground.
Fair play to everyone involved in the Save Tolka campaign.Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
I thought they'd left it too late myself and that they were only going to jeopardise the Dalymount plans, but full credit to the campaigners for their work - and also to the Council for listening.
The big question now will obviously be how much funding the counciil is willing to make available to redevelop the 3 stadia, and how the remainder will get paid for.
https://youtu.be/3rNaiBPNdUM
Footage here from the old Lourdes ground in drogheda (second half of video). Even then it was rough for a loi ground.
I am delighted that Shels can keep Tolka. think Save Tolka campaign played a blinder and ran a superb media campaign in winning Keegan over considering his bad press with Dublin Corp over the last few years in particular. Great day for Loi football!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Great post thanks for that.
Well done to all but it will be interesting to see how much they have to pay to DCC before they start work on the proposed plans. Lot opf money involved but with a bit of luck it will happen and maybe be a template for other clubs in the city. Wonder what impact it will have on the Dalymount timeline.
Cal me a cynic but i can just see everything going on the long finger again for all three clubs , it's not as if Owen Keegan gives a damn
€23m earmarked for his aborted vanity project might be burning a hole.
Looked like work has started on the north stand in Tallaght.
Is that first clip the Showgrounds ?
Yeah, the Lourdes stadium wasn’t good, but at the same time it looked to have more space for development, unlike United Park, which is incredibly hemmed in.
The pitches in those days though !!
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Will be interesting to see what the story with Richmond is. The club are understandably keeping their cards close to their chest after how the Richmond Arena move went, but they're saying they've found a way to get a "modern" stadium in the current location which had always seemed almost an impossibility.
Ya first clip is the Showgrounds, they won the league that year. The camera is facing the Jinks Avenue side which at the time was just a bank but money was then available after winning the league and a new stand was built for the following season and basically its more or less what's there today except all seated now. Roof was replaced at some stage as well.
So it looks like Dalymount won’t be going with the original plans in order to free up cash for Richmond and Tolka. On a positive note though they’re now looking at an 8,500 capacity for Dalymount rather than 6,000 and the ground will feel more like home for fans I’d imagine with the Jodi stand remaining
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...-help-26941359
Paaatrick's Agletic
Its looking like it will be three upgrades instead on one landmark project. That suits our needs just fine for me. If we upgraded the main stand, the patrons and improve the two terraces it would be fantastic. Any clubhouse facilities that could be squeezed would be welcomed aswell.
That’s a better plan, retaining dalymount rather than another soul less legoland like tallaght
I tend to treat all such projects as pie in the sky until they're actually being constructed. And the experience of Finn Harps has taught me not to trust even that! I suspect we will never see all three promised upgrades completed. Money will run out, NIMBYs will object, and priorities for the money will change before everything is built.
I think I'd rather see one good stadium than 3 bad ones patched up to be mediocre, but I'd also rather see 3 appropriately sized stadia than one white elephant. Which characterises the two plans better, I'm not sure.
Anyways, I hope to be pleasantly surprised. Legoland or not, Tallaght is a modern stadium rather than a decaying, flood-prone, hemmed-in ****box with inadequate parking. And I say that with some degree of affection for those grounds. Well, for two of them.
Would'nt be a great lover of the soulless Legoland but on the other hand it will soon be a 10,500 capacity all seater stadium with four sides , all covered. Dalymount from reading that article will end up with a three sided stadium , Tolka two and a half sides and Richmond who knows ?
That's if any of it even happens this side of 2040
We all know, in our hearts, that none of us will live to see any of this.
I'm reminded of that song 'In the Year 2525'. Leitrim will win the All ireland in hurling before any of this happens but it gives us hope in its speculatory form.
https://bohemianfc.com/?cat=5
Club Statement
Following media reports this morning, Bohemian Football Club would like to clarify the current position in relation to the proposed redevelopment of Dalymount Park, a project which has been progressing since the acquisition of the site in 2015 by Dublin City Council.
There has been no change in the preferred and planned redevelopment of the stadium into a 6,000-seater facility with ancillary community facilities.
Following funding from both the Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) and DCC, the design team, which was appointed in 2021, led by Idom with support by Gilroy and McMahon, has been undertaking works on multiple fronts in preparation for redevelopment.
Indeed, there is currently a contractor on site this week conducting complex ground investigations.
In 2021, thanks to DCC, the physical infrastructure of the stadium changed for the first time in decades with the removal of the roof of Des Kelly Stand, which facilitated the stand’s continued usage.
The tender for the demolition of the Connaught Street Stand, which has been out of use for over a decade, is currently live, and that major structure is due for removal before the end of this year.
All this necessary, costly and detailed work, both physical and otherwise, will feed into the preliminary design, which is due imminently.
This will then feed into the final design to progress to Part 8 Planning subject to cost.
The Board of Bohemian FC has always been aware, as with any project funded by public monies, that should costs escalate to an unsustainable level that there would need to be alternative options on the historic site.
These options could potentially involve redesign and would utilise all studies and works already undertaken and stay within the funding mechanism of LSSIF and DCC as combined sources.
Such a redesign could also deliver a higher capacity facility without the need for a long period out of Dalymount Park where we have played continuously since 1901.
This line is a classic : 'In 2021, thanks to DCC, the physical infrastructure of the stadium changed for the first time in decades with the removal of the roof of Des Kelly Stand, which facilitated the stand’s continued usage.'
Thanks to DCC the physical infrastructure of the stadium changed for the first time in decade when they knocked down one of only two roofs in the gaff
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