Bohs To Leave Dalymount - Transport Implications

Transport21 Fan

So it's a done deal; a €21m new 10,000 seater stadium and €26m in cash for getting out of Dalymount.

This should result in a massive population densifaction in Phisborough as the site is HUGE and with Mountyjoy coming under the hammer soon. This will have major implications for Metro-North, Broadstone and LUAS Liffey Junction branch.

The location of the 10,000 seater stadium will be in the townland of Diswellstown, between Somerton Road, Lower Road and M50. The Northern Boundary is Porterstown . Is Metro-West going anywhere near that area?

aliveandkicking

Planning permission is going to be a major problem for Bohs with that new stadium (Its the field literally beside the M50 toll booths on the west side) There is no access to the site apart from back roads and no public transport to it. The lads on the bohs forum were even joking about building a catapult in Liffey Valley shopping centre to get them over the Liffey into the new stadium

Sounds like a good deal for Bohs though hopefully they will blow the 26 million on paying hyper wages on overated English hasbeens in a shambolic attempt to get into the Champions League in front of dismal crowds in a stadium in the middle of nowhere that nobody can get to meanwhile a rejuvenated Rovers will be busy dominating Irish football in front of bumper crowds in Tallaght Stadium with its Metro, Luas and Motorway connections in an area where over 100,000 people will be within walking distance of the stadium. Aint that right Thomas?

Metro west could be the saving grace for it though depending on what the route is.

As for Phibsboro, well it looks like its going high density when Bohs move out. Imagine the potential for a rail/metro interchange at Glasnevin junction now.

Winters

Metro west goes right through the site Thomas. It shall cross the Liffey adjacent to the road bridges.

As for Glasnevin interchange, it doesnt quite strengthen the need for a metro north interchange as there are more factors involved but it does indeed push for a developer funded station on the site of the old Glasnevin station behind Porterstown North.

Timescale is quite short, I would put relocation date as 2012 which is also the anticipated completion date for metro west in that region.

Bohs to sell Dalymount in €50,000,000 deal

BOHEMIANS last night voted to quit their ancestral home at Dalymount Park and bring an end to their 105-year association with the ground.

Members of the club held an emergency meeting to change the club's constitution, allowing them move from Phibsboro to a greenfield site beside the M50 motorway in Castleknock. The deal with Andorey Developments will see the club get a new 10,000-capacity stadium in addition to a €25m lump sum. The club's board of management met yesterday evening and decided to put the option of moving away from Dalymount to its members, as opposed to the other proposals of ground-sharing with their Dublin neighbours, Shelbourne, and redeveloping the Phibsboro venue.

Eighty-six per cent of the club's members in attendance at the Regency hotel voted in favour of the change to the constitution, justifying the board's confidence that the required 75 per cent would be comfortably obtained. The change also involves a rule that states that members have to be consulted if the board was involved in any property transaction above £1m (€1.17m) and will now allow them to proceed with the sale of the Dalymount site in a deal that is thought to be in the region of €50m in total.

Andorey have agreed to pay Bohemians an initial deposit of €2m that is non-refundable and an addition €1m per year that is refundable until the stadium is completed. The lucrative deal will secure the club's prosperity for the foreseeable future and could wipe out the club's present debts and allow them develop academy facilities. Bohemians will stay at Dalymount until the construction of their new stadium, which is expected to cost €21million, is complete and are expected to finally leave the Phibsboro venue in three to five years.

The development, situated beside the toll plaza on the M50 in the townland of Diswellstown, will also have conference and bar facilities that will create revenue streams to supplement the lump sum. One of the founder members of the League of Ireland, Bohemians began life at Dalymount over 100 years ago and the ground was the home of Irish soccer internationals for close to 50 years.

The stadium's record attendance was in 1957 when almost 48,000 people watched a World Cup qualifier between Ireland and England in which John Atyeo's late equaliser caused RTE's legendary broadcaster, Philip Greene, to comment "the silence in Dalymount Park can be heard all the way to Nelson's Pillar".
In 1988, the club nearly lost Dalymount for the paltry sum of £1m, but the club survived with some help form the FAI. In 1999, the 3000-seater Jodi stand was unveiled, but the other three sides of the ground have fallen into disrepair

murphaph

Oh no, that's out near me. All those travelling Bohs fans will surely negatively impact on the value of my house

Seriosly, though, it's good for density levels in a thriving part of town but if I were a Bohs fan I wouldn't be too happy. Out of town stadiums have no soul. No real boozers to go beforehand etc. to build up an atmosphere. Maybe they'll build an entirely new fanbase of familes in D15 of course.

Aidan1

Same thing is going to happen elsewhere also, if the rumours are to be believed. St Pats are reportedly in talks about selling Richmond Park in Inchicore to developers.

Transport21 Fan

aliveandkicking wrote:

a rejuvenated Rovers will be busy dominating Irish football in front of bumper crowds in Tallaght Stadium with its Metro, Luas and Motorway connections in an area where over 100,000 people will be within walking distance of the stadium. Aint that right Thomas?

The should rename Shamrock Rovers to 'West=on=Football'.

Good news about the metro though.

dowlingm

I read that Shels were looking at moving to Dalymount from Tolka. Seems a shame to let Dalymount's history go like this. Maybe Bertie should toss them a few mill to build a stadium in Abbotstown - then he'd finally get a Bertie Bowl. :rolleyes:

Victor

Indeed aren' they still planning a small stadium for Stadium Ireland? Or why not just more to somewhere like Santry, that already exists, has the transport links, near the fan base .....