€1m per game at least, says ex-president Quinn

THE GAA should receive at least €1 million per game for the rent of Croke Park for soccer and rugby internationals next year, according to former president Peter Quinn.

Insisting he was in the dark about the arrangement that had been negotiated, Mr Quinn said that the €1.2m per game figure being mentioned was what he would expect to see the Association receiving - and which he would hope for.

Overall, he felt that the tripartite agreement was the inevitable result of the policy espoused by the Strategic Review Committee (chaired by him), which was put in train by the remarkable Congress decision last April to defer Rule 42 temporarily during the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road.