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The timing of the rebuttal from the local authority could hardly have been worse for Rovers – the deadline for 2005 licensing applications, in which all eircom League clubs were required to outline plans for their home venue for next season, passed yesterday (December 17th).
There followed a frantic search for a home venue on Friday, and Rovers chairman Tony Maguire was able to gain the support of fellow Premier Division club Drogheda United ahead of the deadline.
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The agreement to play the club’s home matches in Drogheda remains provisional, however, and the club’s embattled supporters – who have seen their side play their games at a host of venues around the capital since the doors closed on Glenmalure Park in the late 1980s – will hope the club can reach a final agreement to share a venue in Dublin in the New Year.
Bohemians’ Dalymount Park, Shelbourne’s Tolka Park and St Patrick’s Athletic’s Richmond Park – where the Hoops played their games in 2004 – would all again be candidates for a temporary home for the Hoops, who remain hopeful that they can earn approval to complete work on their proposed Tallaght stadium in the New Year.