The “cost efficiencies” will however, Lord Mayor Ray McAdam said, will not “compromise quality,” but instead “modernise the stadium for present day operational requirements,” and support Dalymount’s role as “an important driver of economic activity in the area”.

Last February, Dublin City councillors backed a €40 million redevelopment of the Phibsborough located stadium.

Home of Bohemians, the redevelopment plan includes increasing capacity to 8,034.