Dublin county board chairman Sean Shanley has revealed that plans for a stadium at the Spawell site in the south side of the city will not go ahead.
Dublin GAA acquired the 35-acre site earlier this year for a fee in excess of €9m with reports suggesting that a 25,000-seater stadium would be built at the location.
However, speaking to the Irish Independent, Mr Shanley dismissed that idea, saying the site would be used for a centre of excellence-style development instead.
"It's ours, we own it, but it'll take a bit of time to sort out the leases in it," he stated.
"The whole place is leased out. There's rental income coming from it. We never wanted to be landlords, but basically we want the land where the pitch and putt and the driving range is. That's to be converted into five pitches, a bit like Abbotstown, so that will be Dublin's Centre of Excellence with a nice cluster of pitches."
He added: "There won't be any stadium in it. Number one, it would take too long to try and get planning permission, as well as being too costly for the occasions you'd use a stadium there.
"Parnell Park holds 10,000 so another stadium… if we have more than 10,000 we can go to Croke Park. Now, that's costly to open Croke Park for 20,000 but we don't have a decent pitch in the Spawell where local championship games can be played."
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