Dalymount Park: The home of Irish football was a field of dreams

For Dalymount Park, the fervent hope must be that we can soon be calling it the once and future home of Irish football.

The stadium’s place in history is already secure, of course, and while its future is hardly likely to be as a venue for senior international game and FAI Cup finals, advanced plans to redevelop ‘Dalyer’ should ensure that top flight domestic football will continue to have a proper home in Phibsborough.

Yes, it’s sad to think they’ll have to knock it down to build it back up again but given the delapidated state of the place — with half the ground no longer accessible to the public for even the biggest games which Bohemians host — a wholesale revamp would seem to be the only way forward.