Huge fall in crowds at opening rounds

LAST Sunday the curtain came down on an intercounty programme which put up the house full signs in Croke Park more often than ever before.

Crowds of record proportions witnessed the concluding stages of the Leinster championship and the attendances at the Dublin-Meath semi final and the final versus Kildare taxed Croke Park to it’s very limits.

This trend continued for the quarter final and semi final stages of the All-Ireland series with the notable exception of the Cork-Kerry clash which drew a most disappointing 50,000.