Hill 16 terrace unlikely to be used for football quarter-finals

THE GAA will have to decide over the next few days if they will utilise the available space on the new Hill 16 terrace for Saturday week’s Bank of Ireland football championship quarter-finals.

Those games will see Dublin taking on Kerry and Westmeath opposing Derry in a double-bill which has the potential to stretch the capacity to its current limit of just under 70,000.

However, director general Liam Mulvihill says the preference would be not to open up the terrace to ensure that it will be fully completed in time for the All-Ireland finals.