Kelly: let’s not shut the door on Croker

INCOMING GAA president Sean Kelly believes rank and file members of the association must keep “an open mind” on the opening up of Croke Park to other sports.

He said yesterday that any future consideration of Rule 42, which governs the use of headquarters, must be considered in the context of the country’s “broad sporting community”.

As GAA chiefs welcomed a UEFA delegation to Croke Park yesterday, the next president of the association denied that his views were at odds with the present administration or represented a shift in policy at executive level.