World Cup in Ireland

Dublin airport is the 14th busiest airport in Europe

I can think of at least  four 5 star hotels in the city centre alone

Westbury

Westin

Shelbourne

Fitzwilliam

How many do you need?

Not totally! The 46A bus sometimes comes three at a time. We should have that in this bid. Guaranteed selling point.

We could feasibly enough host 6 games in a 48 team tournament, 3 in Croker and 3 in LR. There's plenty of accommodation in Dublin and, what's more, fans would not be here for all of it. Plenty will be in & out; plenty more will travel around the country in the period between games (look at the time we spent in Torun, for example). You can easily host 6 games, if the games are appropriately staggered. There are something in the region of 10 ferries a day from the UK to Dublin, leaving aside Rosslare and Belfast, plus a huge number of flights from all over the UK every day. There is no shortage of ways between the UK and Ireland, even for 70,000 fans travelling in a 3 day period.

16 groups of 3, 3 games in each, 3 games a day - that means you can quite feasibly use 2 stadiums in 1 city to host 6 games, and still keep 3 days between games (say with games on days 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 and 16). It is 6 games over 16 days. That means the fans have the opportunity to get in & out without needing four sets of fans to be in the city at any time, even assuming all fans stay the night before and after the game, and even assuming Ireland aren't one of the teams.

It would be feasible to that extent for Dublin alone to host 6 games out of 48 group games, and 3 knockout games too. Assuming Wales did the same (whether all in the Millennium, or whether Swansea joined in) and Scotland hosted 12 group stage games (or more, with extra in Glasgow compared to Edinburgh), then England only needs to host half the group stage games.

As a concept, it is feasible. Dublin definitely has the facilities to be part of such a bid and to host a significant number of games. Hell, Croke Park has the capacity to host a quarter final, at 73,500 all seater with seats on the Hill. Whether FIFA would go for 4 host nations or not is entirely another matter... that's liable to be the biggest problem.

Logistically, as part of a 4 nation bid, it could be made to work. Politically, there are 2 major problems: the first is the number of automatic qualifiers, at 4, and the fact that would alienate other UEFA members; the second is the difficulty of having a bid here without including them'uns. The first problem could be alleviated by saying only England qualify automatically and the others have to go through normal qualifying, although it may be hard to persuade the FAI, FAW and SFA of that. Politically, it is more likely to have a 4 nation UK only bid, with Windsor tarted up to a 35,000 all seater for the occasion, leaving them with a stadium twice the size they need.

Well there are more than four anyway I just named 4 in the middle of the city.

Also Ireland is a relatively small country you could drive from one side of the country in 3-4 hours I'd imagine there are at least "more than 4"  5 star hotels within 2 hour drive from Dublin.

The metro is in the works with a 2027 finish date mooted

 

What in the name of god are you on about? You really do come out with some bizarre stuff  

 

 

You're really pushing the boat out on ridiculousness if you don't even think that Dublin could host a few WC games. We have an enormous airport and any amount of hotels. In terms of city rankings, Dublin is rated alongside the likes of Vienna, Zurich, Stockholm, Melbourne, New Delhi, Washington, Buenos Aires, etc. I suppose none of them would be fit to hold a few tournament games either?  But yeah, Yekateringburg must trump all of them...

Those hotels outside of Dublin would be ideal for teams to stay in. And the Gardaí can whip coaches in and out of town extremely quickly with motorcycle outriders and a blue light escort.

A lot of the other activity of the city would have to be put on hold though. So the airport would be capable, as would the hotels, but not if the current utilisation were to continue.