The GAA and main design and construct contractor, McAleer & Rushe, have celebrated a key development milestone with the topping out of the brand new €40m Maldron Lodge at Croke Park, Dublin.
Marking the structural completion of the event, the ceremony welcomed over 50 visitors and introduced collectively key undertaking stakeholders, together with GAA President Jarlath Burns and senior representatives from McAleer & Rushe and resort operator, Dalata Lodge Group.
The 200-bedroom, four-star resort will characteristic a spread of high-end facilities, together with a enterprise centre with 5 assembly rooms, a state-of-the-art fitness center, and full-service bar and restaurant.
Scheduled to open in 2026, the resort varieties a part of the broader Clonliffe Lands Masterplan, and is ideally positioned adjoining to Croke Park Stadium, providing visitors speedy entry to the stadium and wonderful connectivity to Dublin Airport, main street networks, and public transport providers in Drumcondra.
Dalata Lodge Group, Eire’s largest resort operator, will handle the resort below its Maldron model, famend for delivering high-quality lodging and a superior visitor expertise. Thus far, McAleer & Rushe has delivered greater than 3,000 resort bedrooms for Dalata throughout Eire and Nice Britain, with this newest improvement reinforcing their sturdy partnership and shared dedication to continued development.
Designed to realize a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ score, the resort will boast environmental options comparable to inexperienced roofs, air supply warmth pumps and EV charging factors, and can characteristic a standard hand constructed pink brick façade to enrich the encompassing constructed atmosphere.
To this point, McAleer & Rushe has diverted 100% of development waste from landfill, saved 5,308 m³ of soil by reuse on web site, and is on monitor to satisfy the shopper’s entire life carbon goal of 707 kg CO₂e per m².

Maldron Lodge Croke Park
Jones' Street,Drumcondra
County Dublin, Eire