Under Great White Light - Dalymount Memories

[Drumcondra 69er]

Piece I did for the Bohs site to try and encourage people to bring someone with them to Dalyer this Friday if any Bohs or LOI fans are interested in a read.

http://bohemianfc.com/?page_id=5969

[Mr A]

Nice one. Have always loved Dalymount.

I even met my wife there at a Bohs-Galway United game. She spoke to me to ask about a story about Harps fans going to Waterford had been printed in the Galway United programme. The rest, as they say, is stuff that happened since then.

[wonder88]

A very good piece. Dalymount for me is also special and I hope it can be saved. My first experience of the ground was from a distance through the medium of a black and white telly and watching the highlights of Ireland's 3-0 win over Russia on Halloween night. I was very young but that memory is still with me (Don Givens hat-trick) and then going to a school friends/neighbours house to play the halloween games that kids played then. Strange that I can remember that year and yet have no recall of much later halloweens. Another highlight is listening to the radio reports of the Bohs/Rangers european game and its aftermath that night. It was the first soccer ground that I went to in Dublin and even if the game itself is not much I always enjoy my visit. No other soccer ground has anything like its history and I still do not understand why the Dublin City council do not buy it and keep it open as LoI ground.

[redarmyfaction]

My first game in Dayler was the infamous Carpenter final in 78, when Giles, Dunphy and Co cheated their way to victory with the referrees help, Carpenter never stood in Sligo again after the Corporation voted veiled threats against him.

Glorious footage here.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VFjNufaJw

Anybody else on here see Black Sabbath, motorhead, play there for the kings of rock festival in 83?

[Sligo Hoops.]

Not Bitter ? Dalymount memories. My first visit in 1983, 8-0 v Malta. Paul McGrath's debut v Italy in 1985. The shed when Rovers were in full flight. A great setting to watch football. Roll on Friday next.

[redarmyfaction]

Not Bitter?.

Bitter no, facetious yes.

[Fivesilver]

My first away match was the 1983 Cup final, with Harry McLoughlin skipping across the mud to produce one of the all-time great winners. The first away game I went to under my own steam was also in Dalymount, when I hitched from Sligo to Dublin and watched us lose 2-0, Anthony Keenan proving a woefully inadequate replacement in goal for Fred Davis.

Always enjoyed visits there - helped by the welcome always given to Rovers fans in the Hut.

Incidentally, the '78 penalty is uncannily similar to the one given against Derry in the final 10 years later - same spot in the box, same angle of the run, same lack of any meaningful contact.