New football club and academy planned for North Dublin

NORTH DUBLIN will play host to both a state-of-the art football academy as well as a new football club, if ambitious proposals revealed yesterday are realised.

Fingal County Council plan to develop the complex — which will cost at least €10 million and feature full size indoor and outdoor all-weather pitches and ancillary facilities — at Turvey, between Swords and Donabate.

Longer-term, the plans also envisage the construction of a small sports stadium.