Money may call shots on Croker

FINANCIAL considerations may well decide any policy change to open up Croke Park to other sports, outgoing president Sean McCague conceded yesterday.

Revealing that the issue will not be debated at next month's annual congress in Belfast, he said:

"When the GAA decides that money is going to become more important than their core values, then they will go down that road. But, as long as the rules are the way they are, we will obviously continue to address ourselves to working within those rules and keeping stadiums for our own games.