Ireland has plenty of sports stadiums but not very many fixtures that attract big crowds. There are three large modern venues, two in Dublin and one in Cork, adequate to host the limited number of big events, but very few smaller modern stadiums. Most stadiums in the inherited stock have poor facilities, many are up to 100 years old and some of the smaller venues have inadequate capacity on the rare occasions when an attractive game comes along. The major sports bodies, the GAA, the FAI and the IRFU aspire to modernise their stadiums and/or to build new ones, but…

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