Tennis-Game, set... finally! Ireland gets its first indoor court


-Better late than never, as they say, some 135 years after Willoughby Hamilton and Lena Rice pulled off an historic men's and women's singles sweep for Ireland at Wimbledon, Tennis Ireland has announced plans to open the country's first indoor tennis arena.

The long-abandoned Dundalk Ice Dome — once home to the Dundalk Bulls ice hockey team — will be reborn as a year-round tennis hub under a 20-year tenancy agreement.

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