Alternative history: if Croke Park hadn’t been opened...
The only silver lining on the cloud is that it’s the last ‘home’ game Ireland will have to play in the Millennium Stadium, with the new Aviva Stadium due to open soon.
It could all have been so different, of course. The GAA Congress vote to open Croke Park to soccer and rugby back in 2006 barely failed, but it failed nonetheless, and the nightmare scenario unfolded.
