LAST UPDATE | 23 Nov 2022
DUBLIN GAA HAVE been granted planning permission to build a centre of excellence at Hollystown.
The facility will include four floodlit GAA pitches, one of which will have a synthetic surface.
It will be located at the former Hollystown Golf Course, to the north-west of the city, on the Ratoath Road.
The development will include a renovation of the former two-storey clubhouse, with the bar being converted into two new dressing rooms. There will be six dressing rooms in total.
The clubhouse offices will be converted into a team meeting room.
An indoor training facility is planned, which will include a pitch (30mx20m) and a “tactics space”.
A covered stand, with a capacity of 500 spectators, will overlook the first pitch.
The county’s hurlers will have the use of a wall, five metres high, as well as a “floodlit astro-turf hurling practice area”.
There will be a trail for walking and jogging around the perimeter of the site.
The application for planning permission was received by Fingal County Council on 25 May, and granted on 17 November.
“A covered stand, with a capacity of 500 spectators, will overlook the first pitch.”
All well and good, but when are they going to actually build a proper stadium of their own instead of continuing to use the GAA’s national stadium for half their games?
Croke Park has become Dublin GAA’s back garden, which is not what it is supposed to be, nor was it ever intended to be.
@Oisín McGovern: You do know it is the Leinster council who decides what matches are played in Croke Park and the ones away.
@Oisín McGovern: At least you realise and articulate correctly that CROKER , is the NATIONAL stadium , of the GAA , and not Dublins home venue, as some would have us believe
UpTheDubs
Great news for Dublin GAA. Only wish Cork GAA would do likewise
Great news as long as they are paying for it themselves .
@Karl Phillips: who else is going to pay for it?
Fingal County Boards future centre of excellence
On the border of Meath as well