GAA short-changed on use of Croke Park

[Corca Baiscinn]

According to today’s SBP, the IRFU are set to earn €15m from the three 6 Nations home games, after covering all match day costs including the rent paid to the GAA. This is twice what they would have got from holding the games in Lansdowne Rd.

So the IRFU are better off to the tune of €7.5m overall, by using somebody else’s stadium

The GAA get €5m from the deal this year.

[A.N. Other]

don't worry about it because we have now matured as a nation and its ok for the rugby to screw the gaa

[donnycarney]

corcabaiscinn said:

According to today’s SBP, the IRFU are set to earn €15m from the three 6 Nations home games, after covering all match day costs including the rent paid to the GAA. This is twice what they would have got from holding the games in Lansdowne Rd.

So the IRFU are better off to the tune of €7.5m overall, by using somebody else’s stadium

The GAA get €5m from the deal this year.

That to me is the main reason I was against the opening up of Croke Park. Apart from the inevitable an predictable media witchhunt at the time rule 42 was up for discussion, which was quite sickening, I alway thought it was madness to fund up the competition to the extent that they now being funded. Yes, the GAA now get a few million more that wouldn't have been available heretofore, but it's dwarfed by the money the FAI and the IRFU are making out of Croke Park. All this while making use of the Croke Park voluntary stewards for their games - presumably a freebie.

All this money will be translated into local development structures by the FAI and the IRFU - coaches and games promotion officers, in other words. I still feel that the GAA made big mistake in opening the gates and once the decision had been made they didnt drive a hard enough bargain over it.

[paddybarry]

agreed strongly. that was one of my main arguments against the opening of croke park. we the gaa community are competing with both the soccer and rugby communities for kids to play our games.