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Croke Park Stadium Director Peter McKenna has revealed his ambition to make Croke Park the home of American college football despite the failure to secure a profit from last August’s ‘Croke Park Classic’ — but the dream of bringing the NFL to Jones Road has faded.

Croke Park has experienced many historic moments in its lifetime but none so futuristic as being able to view game highlights from your stadium seat.

A tiny rural museum run by relatives of General Michael Collins is one of two West Cork museums to win a major accolade from an international tourism organisation which puts them among the top 10 in the country.

Today’s American Football game at Croke Park is merely a stepping stone to bigger things

A. proposal to hold two cancelled Garth Brooks concerts as matinees on Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27 will "not be feasible", Aiken Promotions has said.

As Garth Brooks’ record run at Croke Park went from five nights, to three, to none, to fiasco, the hospitality industry has been left reeling with losses estimated at €50m and Ireland’s reputation in ruins.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has described country superstar Garth Brooks’ decision to pull out of a comeback special expected to pump millions into the country’s recovering economy this month as a shock to the system.

The Gaelic Athletic Association and Croke Park Stadium has said it shares the “intense disappointment” that there will now be no Garth Brooks shows at the home of the GAA.

Time is running out to convince Garth Brooks to change his mind and come to Ireland, Labour Relations Commission chief Kieran Mulvey warned today.

The Government has ruled out enacting emergency legislation to resolve the Garth Brooks' crisis.

A resident living near Croke Park has said all five planned Garth Brooks concerts should be allowed to go ahead, and that she is sick of the "ranting" of other residents who complain about the impact of the concerts.

Units of Dublin fire brigade are tackling a serious blaze on Jones Road in the city this evening.

Croke Park Stadium Director Peter McKenna says the new Hawk-Eye system will offer far more than just score detection data when it is implemented this summer.

Croke Park Stadium has won a green and sustainable award.

The "spiritual Olympics" of the Catholic Church will be staged in Ireland next week, attracting thousands of pilgrims from around the world.

Hawk-Eye will not make its GAA debut in Croke Park on June 3.

A JUDGE has refused to throw out the case of a man accused of attacking referee Martin Sludden after last year’s Leinster Senior Football final.

The Queen would not have been offended by a former sports chief apparently breaching protocol by gently guiding her by the arm, Buckingham Palace said today.

The Queen took centre stage at Dublin’s iconic Croke Park stadium today in a historic new act of Anglo-Irish reconciliation.

Croke Park stadium director Peter McKenna has confirmed that the Hill 16 crowd barrier will be reinstalled for next month's Allianz Football League Division 1 final at GAA headquarters.

DAVID COLDRICK is the surprise appointment to referee the All-Ireland senior football decider between Cork and Down in Croke Park on September 19.

Tensions ran high in the immediate aftermath of today's Leinster SFC final between Louth and Meath at Croke Park but once the dust had settled, there was a chance for some of the main protagonists to give their views.

RUGBY and soccer’s move back the Lansdowne Road will cost the local economy millions of euro each due to the smaller capacity at the new Aviva Stadium, GAA president Christy Cooney believes.

It was the word that inevitably dominates the thoughts after a 15-minute chat this week with Ireland scrum-half Tomás O’Leary.

CROKE Park Stadium Director Peter McKenna has strongly rejected Dublin county board chairman Gerry Harrington’s suggestion controlled pitch invasions should be allowed at GAA HQ.

CROKE PARK stadium director Peter McKenna has described planned protests by local residents for last night and today as “unhelpful” but has reiterated that the new pitch will be ready for the weekend’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals.

A WORLD renowned Irish pitch building company last night claimed they ‘knew nothing’ about the planned work on the Croke Park surface.

The home of the GAA was today awarded the architectural equivalent of the cherished Sam Maguire cup.

THE GAA’S Central Council is unlikely to be called on again to make a policy decision on the use of Croke Park for rugby or soccer similar to weekend decision on a possible Heineken Cup semi-final involving Munster.

The IRFU and the ERC have welcomed the decision by the GAA's Central Council to make Croke Park provisionally available as a semi-final venue for this season’s Heineken Cup.

President Mary McAleese will hold talks tomorrow with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an official visit to Germany.

Brazil have revealed they will play a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin next February.

A talk on the history of Dublin’s Gate Theatre and its celebrated relationship with the works of Oscar Wilde is among the highlights of the capital’s culture night, it was announced today.

THE historic Croke Park stadium once again hosted a truly momentous occasion that struck deep into the hearts and minds of Ireland.

GARDAÍ will maintain a strong visible presence in Dublin today as part of a large security operation for this evening’s historic Six Nations rugby match between Ireland and England at Croke Park.

CROKE PARK officials hope to give traffic jams the red card with a major plan to end congestion at the famous sports stadium, it emerged yesterday.

Croke Park officials hope to give traffic jams the red card with a major plan to end congestion at the famous sports stadium, it emerged today.

Disgruntled residents from Dublin’s Croke Park region today hit out at the way the free tickets for Robbie William’s concert were handed out to the community.

Singer Robbie Williams and Irish dance star Michael Flatley are at war, because both want to perform at the same stadium on the same night next summer.

THE Government came under fire once more yesterday for failing to honour its promise of committing 0.7% of gross national product (GNP) to overseas aid by 2007.