Stadium Updates (All Clubs)

[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

[Kingdom]

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.

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.

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.

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

[pineapple stu]

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

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

[nr637]

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

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.

[passinginterest]

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

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

[Roones26]

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

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

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

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

[Kingdom]

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

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,.