SHAMROCK ROVERS are paying tribute to Milltown, which is closed 30 years today. I got a text message from a former team-mate inviting me to Friday night’s game with Sligo Rovers at Tallaght.

Brandon Miele capped his first start in a month with a match winning goal as Shamrock Rovers honoured 30 years since the loss of Milltown with a morale-boosting victory at Tallaght Stadium.

If any optimism lingered about Rovers' immediate future post-Milltown, it was quickly extinguished. The Kilcoyne family left in 1988 and new ownership involving a consortium of fans came in.

A charity soccer match at Glenmalure Park, Milltown, in aid of the third world charity ‘Goal’, was an unashamed trip down memory lane. Shamrock Rovers players of the past took part in the game.

Shamrock Rovers supporters demonstrate at half-time during their last match at Milltown in April, 1987. Photograph: Eddie Kelly ...

Report shows Glasgow Celtic supporters singing in O’Connell Street. Glenmalure Park Shamrock Rovers grounds at Milltown, where new security measures are being put in place for taken for the ...

Shamrock Rovers, from inner south Dublin in the beginning, ... Future Rovers European games were held there because Milltown had no floodlights. There were 45,000 there, officially.

Those problems were all down to the decision, by the Kilcoyne family who owned the club, to sell Glenmalure Park in the Dublin suburb of Milltown to developers at the end of the 1986-87 season.

Shamrock Rovers have won 21 league titles, 25 FAI Cups and are synonymous with the words four-in-a-row and six-in-a-row. The producer of more Ireland internationals than any other club, they even ...

The former Shamrock Rovers footballer passed away after a prolonged illness at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, ... Eamonn played alongside his older brother Tommy during his time at Milltown.