National Sports Campus set to be Dublin’s new training base

Dublin’s senior teams could make the National Sports Campus (NSC) their new training home before the start of the Leinster championships.

Set to open on April 2, a significant part of the GAA’s 30-acre national games and development centre on the Abbotstown site is set to become a de facto centre of excellence for the county.

Dublin’s footballers and hurlers currently train on DCU’s pitches in St Clare’s, Glasnevin but the indications are they will move their operations to the Blanchardstown venue where there will be four sand-based pitches and a 3G pitch, all floodlit. One of the fields will have the exact dimensions of the Croke Park playing surface.