After working on a proposal for the Lansdowne Road stadium I can tell you that citing stations as close to stadia as possible is not recommended. A certain distance is advised to prevent crowd congestion and allow for the safe circulation of people to and from the different entrances and exits.
Perhaps IE/Croker are looking at it for non match days? The conference facilities can be heavily during the weekday sometimes. If a station were built for that reason then it would have to be closed on match days. Only a massive outlay in space, structure and crowd management on match days would enable it to be usefull at large scale events.
Drumcondra is kind of a confined site for expansion of the IE station and platforms but that might all change with the RPA work planned. Entrance through school of deaf site etc.
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