Croker residents seeking queen’s support

THE Croke Park Streets Committee has sent a letter to Queen Elizabeth II asking her to speak on its behalf when visiting GAA headquarters next week as part of her state visit to Ireland.

The chairman of the committee, Eamon O’Brien, says he is well aware of the irony of seeking the intercession of a British monarch to help prevent what he alleges is an attempted unjust eviction from the community and handball centre.

In the letter, sent by registered post to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, O’Brien says that until recently, the GAA would have been unlikely to have extended a warm welcome to a member of the British Royal family, but that now, “your majesty is regarded with deep affection by many in GAA headquarters, unlike their attitude to our local community, and it is in this regard that we hope your majesty may be able to be of some great assistance”.