irishtown stadium

If you already know where Irishtown stadium is then congratulations, you have passed the first test and shall be duly inducted into the brotherhood — it is a relatively painless exercise involving little more than 3 elastic bands and a paperclip.
If you are one of the many who don’t know where it is, can see it on a map but can’t find out how to get there then fear not, the instruction is easy; with Sandymount at your back, go past the Irishtown police station and take the first turn to your right after the dodgy looking off-​licence — careful, it is a sharp/​hairpin turn. At the fork in the road take the left spur — the one that squeezes past the permanently parked cars that make it almost impossible.
After that you take the 1^st left, straight into the stadium car park.
See? That was easy!
The stadium itself is a well equipped and well run affair with a decent gym and outdoor pitches and running track. I am told that because it is a DCC /​local authority run venture membership of the gym is only about € 250 per year, which is incredibly good.
We were there as hosts of a 5 year olds birthday party — you can rent out one of the gym/​studio areas for such events where you would prefer that 30 five year olds not trash your home (in my case I don’t think you’d notice a difference, but in case it could get any worse we opted for the hall).
The cost for two hours was 52Euro, that included access to a fairly grotty but functioning kitchen… certainly enough for the task at hand.
What little hair I have left has now turned an attractive/​manly shade of gray — I feel it important to note that this has nothing to do with the facilities in Irishtown Stadium and wholly related to herding a bunch of 5 year olds for 2 hours, it was my own personal Nam (you weren’t there man, you don’t understand)… Quentins shaking hand reaches for another cigarette from the corner of the darkened, padded room.