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Aviva Stadium,

Dublin

Aviva Stadium
About
The Aviva Stadium, still widely known as Lansdowne Road, is the oldest rugby union test venue in the world. Its first international fixture, Ireland versus England, was played on the eleventh of March 1878. The result, as one tour guide notes drily, is not relevant.

The ground was established in 1872 by Henry Dunlop, also an engineer, who used some three hundred cartloads of soil from a railway trench to lay the original pitch. The train ran directly under the old west stand. The current stadium, opened in 2010, holds just over 50,000 people and is shared between Irish rugby and football. During its rebuild, both codes temporarily played at Croke Park, which opened its doors to non-Gaelic sports for the first time in 120 years.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours connect the stadium to the wider southside story, from the Grand Canal's famine history to Dublin's sporting and cultural landscape.
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