Settle Croke Park issue once and for all

WATERFORD chairman Paddy Joe Ryan has urged the GAA to make a final decision on whether or not to open Croke Park to other sporting organisations.

“It is of the utmost importance that a firm decision is taken and not have it visited on a year in and year out basis as it happening at the present time,’’ he told delegates at last night’s convention in Dungarvan.

“I believe it to be in the best interests of the whole Association that the controversial issue should be debated and decided on, and whatever that the decision, the result should be accepted by all shades of opinion and then put to bed once and for all,” he said.