End of Merrion Square headquarters immanent

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End of Merrion Square headquarters immanent


The FAI are planning to move their headquarters out of Merrion Square by 2005 and relocate their offices in Abbotstown.

Chief Executive Fran Rooney has told the National Executive that the FAI is looking into the possibilities of relocating their headquarters at Abbotstown.

Read more at www.eleven-a-side.com (http://www.eleven-a-side.com/offthefield/irish_soccer_detail.asp?newsid=13607)

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The association hopes to develop a new purpose built office block along with a national coaching facility and small stadium at the north Dublin site.

I've said all along that Bohs and Shels should move into that stadium. With Bohs, Shels, the FAI and grant money involved you could build a superbly modern medium sized stadium fit for cup finals, small international games, underage international games and big european games. Without an EL side moving in to the ground it will surley just be unused 99% of the time and basically a waste of time and money building a stadium there.

[thejollyrodger]

Looks like they are moving into temporary office accomadation at the moment and then building their own. The small stadium would be excellent. 15,000 or 20,000 seater capacity which should defintely be used by two of the bigger Dublin clubs. A new stadium like that would meet all the UEFA criteria for matches in Europe and the rest of the E.L clubs could play there if they progressed in Europe.

I posted an article on this in the irish independent in the national side section.

[Stevo Da Gull]

Looks like they are moving into temporary office accomadation at the moment and then building their own. The small stadium would be excellent. 15,000 or 20,000 seater capacity which should defintely be used by two of the bigger Dublin clubs. A new stadium like that would meet all the UEFA criteria for matches in Europe and the rest of the E.L clubs could play there if they progressed in Europe.

I posted an article on this in the irish independent in the national side section.

It would be a dream come true, a 20,000 hi-tech all seater (could be like a bigger model of NEC's stadium or a mini Croker), It would be perfect for Euro games and International friendly's + U21s and if it were good I'd probably travel out from Bray to watch any big Dublin derby's in it.

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If there is a new stadium built it should have everything there to enable national league teams compete in Europe at any level (That is not much in the scheme of things) but if it doesn't then we should hire a firing squad. It this doesn't match up to the standard that it should be then a hit man should be hired and a few people should get a bullet or two, end of !!

I would love to see a stadium like Logford developed instead of a brand new stadium. Makes more sense to develop an existing stadium accesible to all but that is just my opinion.