Club grounds For many years Thomas Davis played on a field adjacent to the Church of Ireland chapel, known as 'The Graveyard' in Old Tallaght Village (beside the Belgard Road where Smyths Toys is currently located) before relocating in the early 1980s to a green field site on the Kiltipper Road. The club continued to use the Graveyard, together with public pitches in Seán Walsh Park, Dodder Park and Aylesbury throughout the 1990s. The Seán Walsh Park fields were subsequently redeveloped into a man-made lake and landscaped areas, with plans for a stadium to be there also (see below). Early development of club facilities were primarily financed through private sources, including the sale of life memberships, a series of large-scale private members draws and general club fund raising activities. In more recent years, the club has also benefited from grants from the
Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism. Government grants totalled in excess of €500,000 from 2001 to 2003. A further grant of €200,000 was announced in April 2007.
Tallaght Stadium dispute Prior to its construction and opening in 2009, Thomas Davis were involved in a number of objections relating to
Tallaght Stadium. Thomas Davis objected to the original planning permission and later sought to overturn a council decision on the stadium. The club's initial complaint arose as the surface dimensions were unsuited to use as a senior GAA pitch. The Minister for Sport and South Dublin County Council (SDCC) indicated, however, that Junior GAA games could be accommodated in the design. While SDCC initially proposed that the stadium would only be used for
association football (soccer), this was reversed in January 2006 when SDCC proposed that the development include a senior-sized GAA pitch. The council later reverted to the original plans after they were informed by the Minister for Sport that a multi-use stadium would not be funded. In a High Court application to have the stadium design changed to include scope for GAA games, Thomas Davis argued that they would be placed "at a severe disadvantage in attracting the youth of Tallaght to our club, our sport and the GAA culture". In a reserved judgment, made on 30 March 2007, Justice Iarflaidh O'Neill found in favour of the club, stating that it had established a "substantial interest" in the case and raised the necessary "substantial" grounds required for a judicial review of the planning decisions. However, in the subsequent judicial review in December 2007, Mr Justice Roderick Murphy ruled against Thomas Davis. A subsequent application, for an appeal to the Supreme Court, was refused at a hearing on 25 January 2008. At the hearing, Thomas Davis were instructed to pay the costs of South Dublin County Council. ==Achievements==