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losing Sean Armstrong before throw-in was a big loss. 

That's why ye lost -ye had no one to foul the full back and get a goal like Armstrong did in the 2004 Connacht minor Final 

. Not a chance of the Mayo management taking the Rossies lightly,

At least ye have a ******g management

Thomas Davis statement:

"........"Our objective is to ensure that the stadium is developed to the benefit of the entire community in Tallaght including the GAA, but recognising the priority use of the stadium by Shamrock Rovers. We have been pursuing a number of measures to give life to this objective in recent weeks and will be up-scaling these efforts in the weeks ahead and thereafter while we await the substantive planning point coming before the court."

Executive Committe Thomas Davis GAA club

What a reasonable and common sense attitude.?
I notice Soccerfella has vanished GOOD RIDDANCE

Can't see Ros' winning even though they were impressive at times against Sligo.
4, I'm sure Maughan will be ready to have a right crack at them.

We have little hope next Saturday but it will be good experience for the young lads.
As for Maughan - why do ye hate us so much to inflict him on us ?

Hoping for a successful trip to Sligo on Saturday in the U21.
As for the minor I suspect both sides will be "experimental" as they meet in the Championship in only 5 or 6 weeks.

Now that this nonsense is to be judicially reviewed maybe it's time the Public Accounts Committee or the Comptroller and Auditor General had a look at the whole process.
Council lease site to Soccer club - rent £10,000 per annum. Soccer club move in and start work.
Soccer club gets grant from Dept of sport. no more money but keep site for another 5 years paying NO rent.
Council pays best part of €1.5m to get their own land back ( FFS !!!!).
GAA (Dublin Co Board) offer to build stadium paying for it themselves. Offer refused - Councillors vote to amend pitch size but Minister wont let them.
So far SDCC has spent about €1.9m,Dept of Sport either €1.5m or 1.9m. General view in the SDCC is that €11m will be needed to finish it.
So €14.4m will be spent by Public Authorities when they could have saved themselves €11m by letting the Dub Co Board build the Stadium.
Seems like criminal waste of public funds to me.

in 2005 SDCC said it would cost €4m to finish the project.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Spin me good man. €4m my arse  HA ha ha ha

LANSDOWNE 50,000 EST COST €365M
Talladome      6,000   - €365m divide by 9 = €40m.

Maybe less assinine training trying to get lads fit to run marathons or march to Moscow and back instead of concentrating on  quality training and fitness to play football/hurling.
Are you listening Maughan/Tomkins/Carr/Loughnane etc

How much of an investment towards the total cost of the operation have Sham Rovs actually staked?

The figure mentioned of SRFC's financial contribution to date is €2m

Of which €1.5 or €1.9m -came from Lotto Grants.
And guess what GAA lads - something to really piss you off - the Council had to pay almost €1.5m to get the lease back !!!!!! (Seriously  source- my "mole" in the SD Council.)
So the Lotto pays for 75 or 95% of the work done;then they get €1.5m to get off the stage and then they get a free Stadium which is estimated will cost €11m. I suspect with the Irish and Government way of doing things that will be about €15m+ before this saga is over.

the land was to be given back to SDCC in return for completion of the stadium. is the PR chorus denying this now? Are you claiming Shamrock Rovers never owned the site? ........
and Rovers sold f**k all. .... you think the club itself sold the ground.
. Rossfan, you clearly arent stupid, how can you be so wrong on this basic tenent of the case after all the press this week?

ONE -SDCC recovered the LEASE on the site they gave a limited company who owned Shams to build a Stadium.They took it back because the thing had stalled for years.
SDCC then went through the Local Authority version of planning to complete the Stadium. This entailed seeking submissions from the public and making a decision in light of the submissions. The end result was the Councillors agreed with the GAA submission that the Free Municipal Stadium should also include the major sport of Gaelic Games. Then enter the Kerry B*******s.
THREE - Shams or their owners at the time SOLD the Milltown lands for money which wasnt put back into the game - unlike the GAA sales you have a problem with.
FOUR - Thanks for the complement - I wish I could return it but you believe an incorrect version of the facts and as for what you read in papers -- FFS man - wise up.
TWO-Shamrock NEVER OWNED THE LAND IN TALLAGHT - they got a lease of a site to build a Stadium.

bottlethrower,  i dont live on the internet. not getting a reply immediatly doenst mean im hiding, its just .

Hardy, Rovers have a deal. . They give SDCC the land,

More lying crap -- the land belongs and has for years to Sth Dublin county Council.
Shams SOLD thier land back in the 1980s.
GET OFF THE STAGE YA SPOOFER

About 1-9 to 0-3  - not for Fermanagh

It was the best advert for hurling and football I've seen for many a year 

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....his point on rathcoole is central to the ministers stance.his attitude has always been that the gaa have been given land nearby  .....

For F *** sake cut the crap.
The Dublin County Board BOUGHT land near Rathcoole from the County Council.
PLEASE NOTE B O U G H T[/b] not G I V E N.
I know thats a foreign concept to a soccer eejit like Roversfella.
I understand there is no access to these lands till the Council build a road but they are having trouble doing so as it is intended that the same road will give access to lands they have earmarked for a Traveller Site.

Maybe the GAA should stop paying the rest of the debt and wait till the Minister for Sport rides to the rescue.