A full house at Nowlan Park - for football?

[dec]

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2015/1111/741245-dublin-nowlan/

Dublin footballers will play their first championship match outside Croke Park since 2006 when they face either Laois or Wicklow in Kilkenny's Nowlan Park next summer. The decision to take the All-Ireland champions out of the capital for the Leinster Championship quarter-final was made at a meeting of the Leinster Council this evening. Laois and Wicklow meet in a Leinster first-round clash, with the winner awarded the dubious honour of facing Dublin, who will be seeking their sixth provincial title in a row.

Calls for the Dubs to forego what has been seen as their unfair home advantage at Croke Park have been growing in recent years. Earlier, GAA President Aogán Ó Fearghail echoed those calls when he said he believes it is "important" Dublin are taken out of Croke Park to spread the game and boost provincial venues across Leinster.

[Farrandeelin]

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2015/1111/741245-dublin-nowlan/

Dublin footballers will play their first championship match outside Croke Park since 2006 when they face either Laois or Wicklow in Kilkenny's Nowlan Park next summer. The decision to take the All-Ireland champions out of the capital for the Leinster Championship quarter-final was made at a meeting of the Leinster Council this evening. Laois and Wicklow meet in a Leinster first-round clash, with the winner awarded the dubious honour of facing Dublin, who will be seeking their sixth provincial title in a row.

Calls for the Dubs to forego what has been seen as their unfair home advantage at Croke Park have been growing in recent years. Earlier, GAA President Aogán Ó Fearghail echoed those calls when he said he believes it is "important" Dublin are taken out of Croke Park to spread the game and boost provincial venues across Leinster.

If football ever needed to be spread, Kilkenny is the best choice to spread it!

[From the Bunker]

Good to see. Strange that O'Moore Park was not the venue should Laois beat Wicklow?

[laoislad]

Yeah why not O'Moore Park if Laois win?
I don't mind as Nowlan Park is nearer to my home house but still why not Portlaoise?

[tippabu]

I Moore park capacity downgraded on health and safety? It's 4th of June, Saturday 7pm throw in I think

[laoislad]

I Moore park capacity downgraded on health and safety? It's 4th of June, Saturday 7pm throw in I think

4th of June! Is that the bank holiday weekend which also means the same weekend as the Cats laugh!
Ha great craic so.

[BennyCake]

I Moore park capacity downgraded on health and safety? It's 4th of June, Saturday 7pm throw in I think

4th of June! Is that the bank holiday weekend which also means the same weekend as the Cats laugh!
Ha great craic so.

Charge them Dublin hoors double for their pints, and them Cats will be laughing twice as hard!

[twohands!!!]

So now instead of Dublin having 100% of their championship games at home they will only have 95% of their championship games at home.

Hurrah for tokenism !!!

[heffo]

I Moore park capacity downgraded on health and safety? It's 4th of June, Saturday 7pm throw in I think

4th of June! Is that the bank holiday weekend which also means the same weekend as the Cats laugh!
Ha great craic so.

Charge them Dublin hoors double for their pints, and them Cats will be laughing twice as hard!

Pints? It'll be tins of Dutch gold on the street thanks very much

[Rossfan]

I Moore park capacity downgraded on health and safety? It's 4th of June, Saturday 7pm throw in I think

It's to do with seats.
Nowlan has over 17,000 of them while O'Moore has only 6,000.
The €€€€€s me buckos

[ashman]

Kilkenny has lots of beds and is a party town too . 

[LeoMc]

This is only a trial. If sucessful they will play all QF's & SF's away.
They will be like the Harlem Globe Trotters going round giving exhibition matches and giving the regional economies a boost.

[Canalman]

So now instead of Dublin having 100% of their championship games at home they will only have 95% of their championship games at home.

Hurrah for tokenism !!!

Don't forget we have a hurling team also that plays alot outside of CP.

Anyhow, what is the next megawhinge for the mediamob to row in behind?

[laoislad]

PowerCity will do a roaring trade on satnavs the week before this..

[deiseach]

PowerCity will do a roaring trade on satnavs the week before this..

It's the easiest thing in the world to find your way to Nowlan Park from Dublin once you are past Newlands Cro . . . oh. I see your point.