FG move for involvement in Croke Park debate denied

A FINE GAEL move to get Limerick County Council involved in the campaign to open up Croke Park for soccer and rugby was voted down yesterday at a special meeting.

Fine Gael council members Cormac Hurley and Liam Galvin tabled a notice of motion that the council writes to the Limerick County Board of the GAA urging them to support a move at the organisation’s upcoming annual congress to allow rugby and soccer to be played at Croke Park.

Council chairman Eddie Wade, a senior GAA figure, said he favoured opening up Croke Park to soccer and rugby, but getting politicians involved was not the way to go about it.