GAA’s Thurles birthplace set to sell for about €750k

The birthplace of a sports movement with more than 1m members in 2,300 clubs across five continents and with an annual turnover of €50m is set to sell this year — for about €750,000.

A strong sales push on Hayes Hotel in Thurles, where the GAA was founded 130 years ago in Nov 1884, is being undertaken this month by estate agents CBRE, who guide it at €750,000-plus.

They already report both local and national interest, after brief pre-Christmas preliminary advertising on the 30-bed hotel, considered a shrine to the GAA’s origins.