GAA Infastructure

Pitch is too small. You could knock some terraces but then you would be asking Limerick to more than half their capacity once those terraces were gone. You would want a very effective net too given the proximity to the road and houses. The goals would be right up on the edge of the boundary wall.

I agree 100%.

Do Limerick, Cork and Galway really need 3 stadia for Soccer, Rugby, Gaa.

Dundalk FC need new stadium and the GAA are building one, could they not share?

I get that there are a lot of things happening there - its just that not many of those things involve the need for an 80000 seat stadium.

Am I making a point? Not sure.....that its under utilised maybe. But then it does belong to GAA and they can do with it what they wish.

Treaty can't fill Markets Field so the idea they can share with the other 2 is laughable.

If the GAA went with PuC as the full time Munster final venue like Croke Park is then Limerick and Munster could share a 30k stadium.

In Cork though having 1 stadium instead of Turners, Musgrave and Ui Rinn would be a good idea maybe.

A lot of premier league grounds only get used 19 times in any season. Are they all white elephants?

croke park would get used between 30-40 times I’d guess at.

i think your point is redundant.

Well I'd beg to differ - a premier league ground will be used 19 times for the league, will be used for FA cup, for Carabao Cup, for European competition, for friendlies. That brings it to more like 30 or 35 times. But you knew that.

Moreover - when there is a game at at premier league ground, it sells out. Tickets are hard to get.

Not the case at CP. As mentioned earlier, how many of the games at CP see the upper level going on sale. Camogie semifinals got I think 6000, hard to believe when the mighty county of Cork was playing. And a double header too.

A more valid comparison I suppose is Wembley, or the rugby grounds, Twickenham etc....

30 to 35 is only for a very few teams who would be in Europe and go deep into all the cups. But I agree it's a bad comparison and your ones are much better.

On the joined up thinking it's worth noting that the original National stadium plans were welcomed by the GAA and it was the rugby who had just built a big new stand had said no. Rugby and soccer not being what they are now didn't have as much interest as the GAA with a crumbling Croke Park so the GAA instead concentrated on the plan that became the stadium we now have.

The lack of GAA clubs in the inner city has nothing to do with Croke Park.

The reasons would involve a conversation about demographics and inner city life in many major cities not just Dublin that would go way beyond the topic of this thread.

Na Fianna is a 10min drive/cycle and a 25min walk from Croke Park so honestly it sounds like you are talking absolute sht.

St. Brendan's the same distance.

Like everyone else I'm struggling to understand your point. Who are the local GAA community that are being denied a pitch? A quick glance at Google maps shows GAA pitches at Fairview, Grangegorman and Drumcondra; all only a kilometer or 2 from Croke Park.

I made a seperate point.

Which is that Dublin inner city is one of the most socially and economically deprived parts of Ireland.

There are no GAA clubs there.

At the same time, this incredible facility - the HQ of GAA - is located in an area where there is no club and no local facilities.

Inner City is Sean McDermott St, Sherriff St, Mountjoy Sq, Gardiner St, Summerhill, Ballybough.

Fairview Park is outside of this area, as is Grangegorman - also neither is a club pitch.

You dont have to agree but no need to be so sneery about it.

Exact same for the south inner city innit? Worst I’d say in terms of GAA clubs near the city.

just think your points deserve to be in the Dublin GAA thread and no idea how they relate to croke park being under used or under attended.

Its just an inner city thing it's nothing to do with Dublin. I can't think of inner city clubs of any field sport of any city I have lived in or am familiar with.

He's right about Dublin GAA having very little presence in the inner city "between the canals".

Only two inter county players produced from there in 50 years. Paddy Cullen and Ger Brennan.

Lots of soccer players come the north inner city though - most recently Troy Parrot and Wes.

I don't think Croke Park Stadium has anything to do with this. It's up to Dublin GAA and local clubs