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First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome 12:48 - Jan 4 with 1138 views

I wonder if they had to dig down!

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-40777617.html

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First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 13:33 - Jan 4 with 1086 views

CLAREMAN1995

Very good news for all players who slog around in the mud 12 months out of the year .
They have multiple versions over here in US but as soon as you walk inside your ears pop like descending in an airplane but its a minor complaint
Congrats to all involved

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 14:47 - Jan 4 with 1020 views

MrSheen

I have a dim memory of a sports dome on Scrubs Lane in the 70s. Does anyone remember it better?

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 14:55 - Jan 4 with 1001 views

TomS

There's no stopping Mayo winning the All Ireland now. First the curse was lifted, and now this state of the art training facility.

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 15:19 - Jan 4 with 985 views

wood_hoop

What a great idea, my son played competive tennis under a blow up dome a few times when inclement weather put paid to tournaments using outdoor courts, indoor courts very expensive at the time (David Lloyd for example) and very few S/Eastern England clubs had them at the time.

Remember one Easter tournament in St Albans where it was snowing and we were redirected to a club not far away and they had a dome over a few outdoor courts, saved the tounament and my son loved it, hard courts which he prefered as they are usually that much faster than astro or clay and he found playing under the dome not that much different to playing in calm summer conditions.

For football etc I know needed on a much bigger scale but a few years since he was playing and I am sure advancement woulds have been made.

Maybe a inflatable roof over stadiums, reduce capacity a bit when used, but wouldn't imagine it would take that long to set up and opens up the use for concerts etc even during the so called summer months when heavy downpours are on the cards.

Probably just me waffling on and the expence out of kilter, but with climate change who knows just how our seasons will change in the future.

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 15:23 - Jan 4 with 979 views

Boston

You just know there’ll be ruddy faced men putting cattle in there next year.

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First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 15:28 - Jan 4 with 975 views

BrianMcCarthy

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 15:23 - Jan 4 by Boston
You just know there’ll be ruddy faced men putting cattle in there next year.

And the Leprechauns will have a poitÃn still in the corner.

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First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 15:46 - Jan 4 with 949 views

derbyhoop

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 15:28 - Jan 4 by BrianMcCarthy
And the Leprechauns will have a poitÃn still in the corner.

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First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:02 - Jan 4 with 927 views

ParkRoyalR

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 14:47 - Jan 4 by MrSheen
I have a dim memory of a sports dome on Scrubs Lane in the 70s. Does anyone remember it better?

Remember the Tent City type youth hostel in the late 70's on the Old Oak Lane side for the Aussie's but can't recall a sports dome?

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:12 - Jan 4 with 911 views

WatfordR

Looks like a great facility and at a reasonable cost too.

Gets me thinking, would it be worth installing a similar facility at Heston? If it's possible to get 10,000 or so in there for conferences, concerts etc, it would be a viable further source of revenue.

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:19 - Jan 4 with 898 views

BrianMcCarthy

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:12 - Jan 4 by WatfordR
Looks like a great facility and at a reasonable cost too. Gets me thinking, would it be worth installing a similar facility at Heston? If it's possible to get 10,000 or so in there for conferences, concerts etc, it would be a viable further source of revenue.

That's what I found interesting, Watford.

I wonder if the running costs are high.

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First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:25 - Jan 4 with 888 views

WatfordR

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:19 - Jan 4 by BrianMcCarthy
That's what I found interesting, Watford. I wonder if the running costs are high.

I guess you have to keep the thing inflated and that's going to be the major cost?

Reading FC have installed something quite similar on the grounds of a school not far from us, I believe it's a youth training facility, so I'd imagine the costs must be quite reasonable.

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:29 - Jan 4 with 880 views

BrianMcCarthy

First Indoor GAA Game Held in Connaught Airdome on 16:25 - Jan 4 by WatfordR
I guess you have to keep the thing inflated and that's going to be the major cost? Reading FC have installed something quite similar on the grounds of a school not far from us, I believe it's a youth training facility, so I'd imagine the costs must be quite reasonable.

True.

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