Dalymount Park to benefit from Euro 2020

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   Turners X looks really well on TV with a full house. By LOI standards it's one of the better grounds, top 3 if you don't include Thomond. So fair play for the huge improvements since the not so long ago shed and mucky hill behind the opposite goal. Real life tho is a little different. The TV stand side roof barely covers a few rows from rain, alot of the seats on that side and the "Away" end are in poor condition and generally the place could just do with a bit of basic TLC painting, signage, etc.
The opposite "stand" has about 5 rows and is essentially a pitch-length substitutes bench. The away section is far too open to the elements. Bar the new "home" stand, the toilets throughout are poor, it's not the easiest place to get to, there is no stadium parking and the place is cramped into a housing estate preventing any long term expansion.

Tallaght could seem quite soulless I guess to some away fans if the crowd is low and wind and rain is blowing down from the hills. 
But for comfort, parking, ease of access by public transport, PA, Media facilities, toilets, Megastore, cafe and general office admin/changing rooms etc there is nothing else in the LOI to compare. 
If there is a criticism of Tallaght, it's the lack of a decent adjacent boozer, the daft lego brick coloured seats and the aforementioned wind.
I don't like any grounds where the stands and therefore the supporters are removed too far from the pitch, but obviously there were other concerns to be accomodated at the design stage regarding Tallaght. In the very Long term, given the huge distance between pitch line and stands, the ideal would be to drop the pitch level and increase capacity by building down rather than up. But that won't be in most of our lifetime and accomodating other sports larger pitch sizes might be an issue.
The original plan was for a 10,000 seat stadium btw, not 12,000 as mentioned earlier. I still have the hard-copies and that was part of the Planning Conditions aswell as the specifics on mid-week game days to avoid cheesing off the local school.

That article in the Echo by the way is just speculation, it mentions "potential" projects SDCC are considering. And they'd barely get a garden shed and decking in Woodies for €500k never mind a 2,500 seat stand. The North (Square) end is the right end for it tho, notwithstanding the tornado issue from the car-park. 
Ideally in the long-term this proposed new stand would accomodate away supporters and a larger home stand, after revised planning, would be built the car-park end. The backdrop of the Dublin Mountains on a big League/ Euro night would be quite the sight 