Dr. Hyde Park is a Gaelic Athletic Association

Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 stadium in Roscommon

Roscommon

Roscommon is the county town of County Roscommon in Ireland. Its population at the 2006 census stood at 5,017 . The town is located near the junctions of the N60, N61 and N63 roads.-History:...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. Built in 1969, and officially opened in 1971, it is the home of the Roscommon Gaelic football

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

 team, with Athleague being the traditional home for the Roscommon hurling

Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

 team. Named after a Gaelic scholar and first President of Ireland

President of Ireland

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, Douglas Hyde

Douglas Hyde

Douglas Hyde , known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn , was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945...

, the ground has a capacity of about 30,000. The ground has hosted numerous Connacht Senior Football Championship

Connacht Senior Football Championship

The Bank of Ireland Connacht Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition for the senior county teams of Connacht GAA. A series of games are played during the summer months and the final is played in July....

 finals, regardless of Roscommon's participation. Most memorably, it hosted the 1994 Connacht Final which seen Leitrim

Leitrim GAA

The Leitrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Leitrim GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Leitrim. The county board is also responsible for the Leitrim inter-county teams.-Gaelic football:In the 1924 Connacht...

 triumph over Mayo

Mayo GAA

The Mayo County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Mayo GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Mayo and the Mayo inter-county teams.-History:...

 to win their first title since 1927. Other memorable Connacht finals hosted on this ground include the titanic tussle between Roscommon and Galway in 1998, Roscommon's dramatic last gap win over Mayo in 2001 and Sligo's triumph over Galway in 2007. In the initial years of the All-Ireland qualifiers, the ground played host to numerous ties, although in recent years, virtually none have taken places at this ground.

The ground is also home to the GAA club Roscommon Gaels. It consists of four stands, one covered with seating and the other three open terraces. It is located beside the county hospital on the Athlone Rd. in Roscommon Town and is a fortress for the primrose and blue. It replaced the former home to Roscommon, St.Comans Park, in 1969.