GAA ‘should open Croker’ during Lansdowne makeover

THE GAA should seriously consider making Croke Park available for soccer and rugby for the two years while Lansdowne Road is being developed.

That was the demand of Sligo delegate Ciaran McDermott, at the Central Council meeting which preceded last night's annual Congress in Killarney.

At the same meeting, there was strong criticism of the "shameful" treatment of the ex-Presidents, who ruled motions from eight counties on the Croke Park issue out of order, with Association President Sean Kelly promising a "root and branch" analysis of the system to facilitate clubs in forwarding motions.