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BOHEMIANS AND SHAMROCK Rovers will meet in the Aviva Stadium on the opening weekend of the League of Ireland season — the first time that a league fixture will be played at the stadium.
The cross-city rivals will meet on Lansdowne Road on Sunday 16 February at 2pm, celebrating the 110th anniversary of their first Dublin derby.
The fixture will technically be a home game for Bohemians, who have opted to move it from Dalymount Park in agreement with Rovers and league officials.
“Football in the League of Ireland is in its strongest place in decades and this game will showcase our most famous game, in our county’s best stadium,” Bohs chief operating officer Daniel Lambert said, targeting the biggest-ever attendance at a Dublin derby.
Rovers chief executive John Martin said the move is “another positive step in the growth of the League of Ireland and showcases the clubs’ abilities to work together.
“We look forward to being part of such a historic occasion.”
The full fixture list for the new League of Ireland season will be confirmed on 17 December.
Written by Niall Kelly and originally published on The 42 whose award-winning team produces original content that you won’t find anywhere else: on GAA, League of Ireland, women’s sport and boxing, as well as our game-changing rugby coverage, all with an Irish eye. Subscribe here.
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It’s not that they’re sitting on their hands… It’s that they haven’t an iota how to solve it.
@Louis Jacob: who does?
@Disco Inferno: SF do, give everyone everything for free, magic money tree will provide
@Disco Inferno: Hard to tell. FF/FG are the only governance we’ve ever known.
@Disco Inferno: Quite simple really, isn’t rocket science, if they (gov) can put in MUP as in a minimum price on a product IE alcohol, then they can easily put in a maximum price on any product. Simple.
@Martin Kenny: you mean the free mismanaged 10 billion this year or the 11 8 billion last year… Go Figure free money!!!
@Dave C: Unfortunately this is all poor Martin has to go on about. FFG have had plenty of magic trees lately
@Dave C: What happens when the producers of all the goods we import, whose profits would be impacted by such a policy, decide it’s just not worth selling into Ireland anymore?
@Martin Kenny: you mean the magic money tree which sprouted an additional €.4 billion to advance FFG’s military build up in their aims to abandon our neutrality???
@Louis Jacob: I don’t think it’s the Government’s job. The market is supposed to adjust itself. When a price is unacceptably high, stop accepting it and stop buying those items. Do without or search around for someone selling what you need for a price you’re OK with. I can’t believe anybody wants the Government micro-managing the economy.
I used to regularly buy Pepsi Max. Then when Coca Cola stated it had to increase its prices to cover rising costs, ALL the soft drinks manufacturers piled on. Now if I want cola I buy Xero Cola @ 75c a bottle, not €2.89 for Pepsi Max.
You really would have to wonder how people keep on voting for the same FFG clowns repeatedly. 100 years of corruption and one scandal after another. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
@Daniel Gilroy: Its Fianna Fáil and Provisional Fianna Fáil, Like Coke or Pepsi.
@Daniel Gilroy: As opposed to the naive and wonderful sf hopefuls?
Spinn Fein moaning again, Paul must have the day off…
the opposition are all mouth so they are.
@John Deane: The opposition are all mouth. Whatever next?
@John Deane: They’re supposed to be.
@John Deane: I’m surprised you can spell opposition.
Well eamon Ryan made it very clear today they won’t be doin anything about energy prices. Except for get renewables on the go. Which he’s hugely failing on so far. Again saying the line that they buy energy 18 months kn advance so prices will still be high for that long. Even tho when Ukraine invasion kicked off they jacked up the prices instantly.
See David the landlord Terry picking up for the government
It’s as simple as this, All the other parties have had a chance and failed. By giving SF a chance to see if they are what they say, and if they fail,we can truly say that they are all the same.
This so called government simply are in free fall…..Housing,Health,Childcare,Household,Rent,Tourism…it goes on. JC
Well, we do pay a high proportion of taxes, it’s about time we ALL see some return on them.
SF populist sh#te give everything for free policy. I’ll vote for them just to prove it if they get in..
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