FAI invest in Rovers' ground...
From eleven-a-side:
The most welcome addition to the Shamrock Rovers squad this season could be a few bricklayers as the club are finally set to recommence building at their Tallaght based stadium.
The partially built stadium had been lying idle as serious cash flow problems meant that Rovers could not raise the funds to finish the job. The club tried to raise funds through a supporters fund and then a ground share with the Dublin GAA but both came to nothing.
Just as it looked like Shamrock Rovers were to remain homeless, a fairy godmother has appeared on the vista in the form of the FAI and a generous local publican.
The club need €4m to complete the first phase of the scheme which will allow them to play in the stadium. The unnamed publican will invest €300,000 per annum for the next four years to help the club raise a mortgage of €3.5m while the FAI will stump up the remaining €500,000, for which they will be granted limited ground rights.
So it is full steam ahead for the Rovers who will eventually have the most impressive stadium in Irish club soccer.
