{"id":303109,"date":"2026-01-25T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303109\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:15:14","slug":"dublin-football-team-buys-pitches-from-developer-after-discovering-councils-claim-of-ownership-was-mistaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303109\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin football team buys pitches from developer after discovering council\u2019s claim of ownership was mistaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Broadford Rovers recently bought the title for a near eight-acre site in Dublin 16\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Broadford Rovers vice-chairman Liam Kealy, treasurer Andrew Corcoran, chairperson Loraine Kane and secretary Damian Kilpatrick. Photo: Tom Honan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SN 0B6A1257.jpg.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Broadford Rovers vice-chairman Liam Kealy, treasurer Andrew Corcoran, chairperson Loraine Kane and secretary Damian Kilpatrick. Photo: Tom Honan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Dublin council is reviewing matters with its legal team after a football club bought its pitches from a developer even though the council previously claimed it owned the land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Broadford Rovers, an amateur team with about 600 members, is based in Ballinteer, south Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadford Rovers recently bought the title for a near eight-acre site in Dublin 16 Broadford Rovers vice-chairman Liam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,5608,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-303109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mark-tighe","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115956634505822129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}