PORTLAOISE GAA club officials insist they are not looking for a €6.5m “bailout” from Croke Park and have described as premature reports that the Cork-based developers due to buy their grounds have pulled out of the deal.

READING the papers these days, you could be forgiven for thinking that dual players are almost an extinct species in the GAA. That may be true at inter-county level, but the same can’t be said for the club scene.