South Dublin County Council today issued the following press statement which is great news for the club. “South Dublin County Council has announced a €7.7m upgrade of Tallaght Stadium that includes the building of a new North Stand and development of the West Stand to a high-quality corporate area.
8 June 2020
The FAI statement below was released last night and outlines the very positive steps being taken to restart football in Ireland. The Football Association of Ireland welcomes the new measures announced by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Ministers Shane Ross and Brendan Griffin today, as we contin
6 June 2020Hoops’ Late Late Show The much-heralded summer football season in the League of Ireland finally got off to a start in 2003. The change had been muted for years, resisted by traditionalists and constantly put forward by those seeking to address what seemed to them to be a terminal illness that simply
6 June 2020Rovers v Bohs at Windsor Park? The mere suggestion of these two clubs playing a match at the home of Linfield F.C. in Belfast would be laughed out of it. It might even bring a few shivers down one’s spine! Yet, you can believe it, such a game was actually played there. The year was…
30 May 2020
The Football Association of Ireland announces that all the COVID-19 tests carried out on players and staff at four SSE Airtricity League clubs have returned negative results as the Association continues to work on a pathway for a safer return for all football in Ireland. FAI Medical Director Dr Alan
28 May 2020Irish football took the first steps on the pathway to a safer return for all football when testing for COVID-19 began on Monday as part of the pilot programme and tournament for the four SSE Airtricity League clubs who will compete in Europe this year as Shamrock Rovers, Derry City, Dundalk and Bohe
25 May 2020
Tonight is ‘Rovers Big Night In’ where we have our first online quiz night! Along with the 10 rounds of quiz questions we have a number of special segments featuring players, some interviews and a piece with Winston! Stephen Bradley will be live with us at the start 7.45pm to launch the
22 May 2020The Top Four competition was introduced in the 1955/56 season. This was an end of season competition that featured the teams that had finished in the top four in the league. Shamrock Rovers were the inaugural winners having finished in 2nd place that season and beating Waterford in the final pl
19 May 2020
Hoops supporters have put together a Big Online Quiz Night on Friday 22nd May at 7.45pm and all are welcome! This Friday night is a Big Rovers Fan’s Night In when our very first online quiz night takes place in a fan’s fundraiser for SRFC. It’s General Knowledge x 10 rounds of 6 qu
19 May 2020It was everything we had dreamed of during our nomadic years following the departure of Glenmalure Park. For years Hoops fans had to run the gauntlet and sneers of rival fans as Shamrock Rovers stumbled from one crisis to another as the Tallaght Stadium saga rolled on endlessly. Here we were now in
14 May 2020The Moore Magic Lives On! Of the many players who played in the famous green and white hoops of Shamrock Rovers, the deeds of some very special performers continue to live on. Today Robert Goggins takes a look at Paddy Moore who was reckoned by those who saw him play to be a very special…
9 May 2020Rovers vs Chelsea Some older Hoops fans still talk about the day the mighty Chelsea came to Dublin only to be humbled by the ‘Coads’ Colts’. In our latest look-back on a golden moment, Robert Goggins writes about that day at Dalymount Park. On this day sixty-five years ago the English League Champio
5 May 2020
