Aer Lingus College Football Classic Dublin

Niamh Costigan

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The headlines going round are all Illinois high school gridiron, which has nothing to do with us, but it did send me down a rabbit hole into the actual American football story in this town: the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, the yearly NCAA fixture that lands American college teams and their marching bands into Aviva Stadium every August. Dublin's had Notre Dame, Navy, Georgia Tech, Florida State and more tramp through here in recent years, and the city turns into a sea of unfamiliar jerseys for a weekend. Here's where the whole daft, brilliant circus plays out, venue by venue, for anyone wondering why there were college kids doing push-ups on O'Connell Street.

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Aer Lingus College Football Classic Dublin — 4 items
Name	Venue	Address	City	My take
1Aviva Stadium	Aviva Stadium	62 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2A1	Dublin	Home of the whole American college football circus every August. Rugby posts swapped for goalposts, bless it.
2Croke Park	Croke Park	Jones' Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3	Dublin	GAA headquarters and occasional gridiron stand-in back in the day. The cathedral, basically.
3Aer Lingus College Football Classic	The Classic itself, wherever the fans land	62 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2A1	Dublin	The annual event that turns Ballsbridge into a sea of maroon and orange for a week. Grand craic, mind the queues.
4Notre Dame vs Navy fixture	—	—	—	—