What would become of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay if the council relocates?
After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Gareth Jones, standing over his own extensive collection, sprawled out over several tables.
Josh Hennessey has been picked to play for Ireland’s Down syndrome futsal squad in a European competition in Italy in September.
For many years, the club has called the pitches in the Alfie Byrne Park home. Now it’s asking Dublin City Council for a lease.
Tired of pleading with the council for an astroturf pitch in their area so they don’t have to rent private facilities to train in winter, Kilmore FC is planning a protest.
Soccer and Gaelic football clubs across the city are questioning why pitches don’t have adequate toilet facilities, and are raising it with the council.
“What’s good for the planet is good for the club, which is good for the fans,” says Seán McCabe, the club’s first climate justice officer.
“What we discovered is public pitches are generally made to prevent anti-social behaviour,” says Gavin Fahy. But “they also prevent social behaviour”.
Perhaps a redeveloped Dalymount Park would be the ideal home for a museum dedicated to the story of Irish football, encompassing everything from Harold Sloan to the Drums.
Back when he played professional football, John Cummins kept his poetry to himself. These days, as poet in residence for Bohemians FC, he can flaunt it pitchside.
“I thought the documentary was worth making because nobody else had done it,” says writer and director Kevin Brannigan.
More than any other individual, it was the great Jackie Carey – hailing from Dublin’s north side – who turned the Irish public onto British football, writes a historian.