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Well like i say, whats the point in having a staium on the southside if it's harder to get to from then Parnell Park.
It's on the wrong side of the mad cow roundabout and has very poor bus services as far as i know, imagine trying to get there for a midweek evening throw in.

It is not giving the GAA good PR but i think they've every right to question the decision [ only because SDCC had agreed to let the GAA in.]
Agree 100% that the GAA in Tallaght ha nothing to fear from Rovers.

Building expenses might go up by redeveloping the current site but surely it'd still be significantly cheaper then building a whole new stadium elsewhere.

Whereabouts in Rathcoole is he proposing exactly? it's easier for me to get to Parnell park then Rathcoole to be honest, unless the buses out that way have improved dramatically in the last few years.

As the original poster said, the only winners if this goes that far would be the lawyers. The legal bill would probably pay for the work in the first place. Why not just extend it and be done with it, get rovers in place, with GAA clubs using it on other days, maybe even the dublin hurlers or footballers could play there once or twice.

tayto,

point taken on board regarding u12 game,  i was however trying to show an example (howevery bad) that the stadium being built for "the community" should be for the community, If the government want to build shamrock rovers a stadium let them just come out and say it not in this veiled form.

Fair enough boss, I took you up wrong so, sorry about that.

People seem to have such black and white opinions on this.

I have sympathy for Rovers and their fans over this but a community stadium should sure be able to fit all the sports played in the community. The thing could probably be finished by now if the minister hadnt forced the SDCC to change their mind. Anyone saying it wouldnt be an ideal location for GAA matches in south dublin is just not being objective in my opinion.

Yes, the same minister who mouthed off on Prime Time recently about how the GAA should end it's association with drinks sponsorship. Happily forgetting to mention the the Heineken cup, the Carlsberg Cup, the Magners league, the Guinness autumn internationals.

U12 match? oh for the love of god, will you cop on. No one is being that unreasonible. You seem determined to make as weak an argument as humanly possible by total exaggeration.

The stadium is being finished by SDCC as a municipal stadium, with Rovers as the primary tenants. So yes, Rovers  get first dibs on use of the stadium, fair enough, but championship matches between two Dublin southside clubs should be able to be played there as well instead of dragging players and supporters across Dublin [often on weeknights now aswell with the floodlights]. SDCC had agreed as much, the Dublin county board had offered to help pay for the extension, then minister knuckle head comes along and says no.

If SDCC wants to build a ground for whatever it wants to build a ground for, that's its business.  Hasn't the GAA got grounds all over South Dublin - the Davis and St Annes grounds are literally within shouting distance - if they really want to develop them. Small minded petty s**t like this is what p****s me off about the GAA and some of the people that inhabit it.

I'm from south Dublin and i think Thoman Davis are more then jusified in their action.

So this is how you punish a business for cooking it's books? You biuld them a free stadium. Great stuff altogether.

SDCC had agreed to let the local GAA clubs use the stadium but the sports minister pulled the plug inexplicably. Now unless anyone here thinks FF are alway righ then Thomas Davis are perfectly entitled to take this to court. People saying they should just build their own ground are just talking cobblers, SDCC had agreed to let them use this one with minor modifications. It is in a prime location that is easy to access from anywhere in south Dublin due to a host of bus routes and the Luas.

Fact is Eircom league clubs shouldnt be going full time because they simply can't afford it ont he tiny crowds that come through the gates, i fail to see why the government should prop up an unsustainable business model like this. 

no, they should be allowed into the Dublin championship though. Everyone else is allowed into it so why not!

ha ha ... good point ... feck it sher the all stars may aswell join in the craic as well 

Here's an idea, Should the underdogs be allowed enter the league?

what class of a c**t is that other male selector (as in not Mullins)? And who is he anyway?

I caught a couple of minutes of this week's and last weeks. Last week they were letting on that 2 girls had failed a drugs test. Fuckin hell, talk about taking a joke too far. And this week when bringing in some young one to tell her she wasn't being cut from the panel, he let on she was. He had her practically reduced to tears before letting on he was joking. He comes across as a right p***k altogether.

It was hilarious last week him telling Margaret D'arcy that the challenge against the Aussie rules team would be the biggest she ever played in her life. I wonder was that including the several Leinster finals and all-Ireland semi finals she played in in camogie.

sounds a bit like yerman brent off the office

Heard that on Newstalk alright. Thank god for the GAA so!!!!

Sorry for the break in the pun-fun, but this was a topic I researched a while ago, having read an article in Ireland's Own! Believe it or not, in 1882, Michael Cusack thought that the best game suited to the Irish was cricket. In a column he wrote at the time, he said that cricket was an Irish game and encouraged young men to take it up and purchase Irish made stumps etc. I was serious about the All-Ireland reference above, and even our GAA inter-county structure took its lead from the English All-England Club. By the 1880s the rural cricket structure was a rival to that which existed in England. A boyo who researched the origins of Cricket found the earliest reference to the game came in Irish literature when Cuchulainn 'defended the hole'. He came to the conclusion that thte game of Cricket was invented in Ireland.

Are you for real? That's news to me, I know Dev said rugby was suited to the irish persona. 'xcuse me ignorance but how does 'defending the hole' refer specifically to cricket? ... or is this an elaborate wind up i'm not getting? ... surely that could be defending the goal? as in hurling ...

Cricket and hurling have very similar histories other then that, landlords used to have teams made up of their tennents and they'd take on other landlords etc.

i know hockey is thought to have come from winter hurling, and that summer hurling is what we know today as hurling, or so the history of the GAA book i read awhile back said anyways.

No flirtyflan,  I said jealousy AND rejection.   Are you telling me this doesn't exist with some (not the majority) Carmen fans?   FFS I'm even related to some I know are like that.  They can't stand Mickey Harte because a) he comes from & managed Errigal, b) he doen't select enough Carmen players and c)  (this is the best one yet, heard in Daly's bar after the 2005 AIF)  he lost us the Ulster final 05!   I mean wtf?? 

that made me laugh, nothing like a bit of local bitterness. 

Uproar over shakey barley? What uproar? .... 

Well done Rhode! 

I see your tinkers started fighting again yesterday when they were losing.

did they? Why no outcry in the papers? What about the children!??!?!