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An article in the independent today mentioning increasing seating capacity in tallaght stadium apparently.
Wonder will they fill in the corners?
https://www.independent.ie/regionals...419626789.html

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Originally Posted by Nesta99

Yeah and I still wouldnt want him playing another high contact sport if I was his professional club, I still think its is bizzare. It wouldnt have been miles away from Roy Keane being back in Cork and truning out for Cobh in a playoff when a Manchester United player - I know registration rules wouldnt actually allow this but thats AFLs issue or the GAA were players can still be parahuted in to a squad when they happen to be home on holidays.

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Mark O'Connor and his family are registered Dingle members and always have been. He plays for the club every time he comes back home. In the case of Daingean, they are missing their starting midfielder in Barry Dan Sullivan due an ACL he suffered playing with Kerry, so getting Mark was a godsend.

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But that case aside Im sure we all know of case where 'star' players, absent for hard slog of aGAA season and are flown in when a club looks like they could make a final.

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To be fair, that's every inter-county player in the bigger counties - i.e. they only play with their club for Championship matches.

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Originally Posted by placid casual

An article in the independent today mentioning increasing seating capacity in tallaght stadium apparently.
Wonder will they fill in the corners?
https://www.independent.ie/regionals...419626789.html

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A strange question for the LoI in this day and age, but...are extra seats needed?

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Originally Posted by placid casual

An article in the independent today mentioning increasing seating capacity in tallaght stadium apparently.
Wonder will they fill in the corners?
https://www.independent.ie/regionals...419626789.html

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The 10,134 paying fans who watched Shelbourne lose 0-3 to Crystal Palace in the UEFA Conference League on Thursday night 11th December 2025, resulted in the Reds breaking the attendance record for a competitive game in the Tallaght Stadium.

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Originally Posted by placid casual

An article in the independent today mentioning increasing seating capacity in tallaght stadium apparently.
Wonder will they fill in the corners?
https://www.independent.ie/regionals...419626789.html

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There's nothing in the 2026 SDCC draft budget about adding seats. It's allocating 100k to host a concert there in the summer and mentions completion of work on the dugouts and floodlights. If there are plans for more seats it's not in 2026 or the money is coming from another source. https://www.sdcc.ie/en/news/draft-budget-2026.pdf

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

A strange question for the LoI in this day and age, but...are extra seats needed?

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Probably is the short answer. Maybe not necessarily on a week-to-week basis, but it's a big leap between 10,500 and the 51,000 of the Aviva so having more seats in Tallaght is likely no harm

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Originally Posted by placid casual

An article in the independent today mentioning increasing seating capacity in tallaght stadium apparently.
Wonder will they fill in the corners?
https://www.independent.ie/regionals...419626789.html

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The issue I'd think for Tallaght regarding adding capacity at this stage is that all the easy, very doable stuff is done right? infilling the corners likely involves signifcant works to the existing stands that are there specifically I would think in respect of the roofs, no two of which are the same, and moving the floodlights etc as well as the fact i dont think the North Stand corners can be filled based on the design ? which would make me think its capital intensive for not a huge return capacity wise for how often the capacity would be filled

Would not surprise me one bit if it was more economical to knock the West Stand and double capacity there

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Originally Posted by Roones26

Probably is the short answer. Maybe not necessarily on a week-to-week basis, but it's a big leap between 10,500 and the 51,000 of the Aviva so having more seats in Tallaght is likely no harm



The issue I'd think for Tallaght regarding adding capacity at this stage is that all the easy, very doable stuff is done right? infilling the corners likely involves signifcant works to the existing stands that are there specifically I would think in respect of the roofs, no two of which are the same, and moving the floodlights etc as well as the fact i dont think the North Stand corners can be filled based on the design ? which would make me think its capital intensive for not a huge return capacity wise for how often the capacity would be filled

Would not surprise me one bit if it was more economical to knock the West Stand and double capacity there

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The news article references adding office space, so it's possible that you could add 4 blocks in each corner to close the ground off and create a few levels of office space. See it in a few stadiums around EU, but might not suit Tallaght,.

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Originally Posted by Kingdom

Mark O'Connor and his family are registered Dingle members and always have been. He plays for the club every time he comes back home. In the case of Daingean, they are missing their starting midfielder in Barry Dan Sullivan due an ACL he suffered playing with Kerry, so getting Mark was a godsend.


To be fair, that's every inter-county player in the bigger counties - i.e. they only play with their club for Championship matches.

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There are always reason some ok and excues, all boil down to best chance of winning. But it doesnt make it right that a squad gets a team to x point and a club then parachutes other players in. There should be some regulation against it, saving cost to an amateur sport. Even just registering a player who is in Boston on the off chance he might be needed doesnt sit well. But for another professional sport and club, to allow one of their contracted and paid players fly off to the other side of the world to play another physical code is still bizarre. Who covers cost if an injury hapened, what insurance pays the wages or if long term replacing the player, god forbid a career ending situation, who reconciles that. Its not an issue with GAA, I just think its mad from his employer. Even within GAA dual players are discourged and mostly a thing of the past. You very rarely get lads who play LoI and also play some GAA any more. Rugby League put a stop to lads playig Union in their spare time before Union professionalised. Loading is very highly managed even withing Union in terms of club, province, international and for some Lions participation. Off season is a break not to go off an play something else. Cricket is the only other sport I can think of where contracted players can go and sign up for something like the Indian Criket League in an off season. Its quiet on the LoI front so while off topic, theres not a whole lot going on.

Were you usually a sub during your playing days by any chance?