BOHEMIANS last night voted to quit their ancestral home at Dalymount Park and bring an end to their 105-year association with the ground.

Members of the club held an emergency meeting to change the club's constitution, allowing them move from Phibsboro to a greenfield site beside the M50 motorway in Castleknock.

The deal with Andorey Developments will see the club get a new 10,000-capacity stadium in addition to a ?25m lump sum. The club's board of management met yesterday evening and decided to put the option of moving away from Dalymount to its members, as opposed to the other proposals of ground-sharing with their Dublin neighbours, Shelbourne, and redeveloping the Phibsboro venue.

Eighty-six per cent of the club's members in attendance at the Regency hotel voted in favour of the change to the constitution, justifying the board's confidence that the required 75 per cent would be comfortably obtained.

The change also involves a rule that states that members have to be consulted if the board was involved in any property transaction above £1m (?1.17m) and will now allow them to proceed with the sale of the Dalymount site in a deal that is thought to be in the region of ?50m in total.

Andorey have agreed to pay Bohemians an initial deposit of ?2m that is non-refundable and an addition ?1m per year that is refundable until the stadium is completed.

The lucrative deal will secure the club's prosperity for the foreseeable future and could wipe out the club's present debts and allow them develop academy facilities.

Bohemians will stay at Dalymount until the construction of their new stadium, which is expected to cost ?21million, is complete and are expected to finally leave the Phibsboro venue in three to five years.

The development, situated beside the toll plaza on the M50 in the townland of Diswellstown, will also have conference and bar facilities that will create revenue streams to supplement the lump sum.

One of the founder members of the League of Ireland, Bohemians began life at Dalymount over 100 years ago and the ground was the home of Irish soccer internationals for close to 50 years.

The stadium's record attendance was in 1957 when almost 48,000 people watched a World Cup qualifier between Ireland and England in which John Atyeo's late equaliser caused RTE's legendary broadcaster, Philip Greene, to comment "the silence in Dalymount Park can be heard all the way to Nelson's Pillar".

In 1988, the club nearly lost Dalymount for the paltry sum of £1m, but the club survived with some help form the FAI. In 1999, the 3000-seater Jodi stand was unveiled, but the other three sides of the ground have fallen into disrepair.