Tipp club counts cost of weather conditions

OFFICIALS at Tipperary club Grangemockler have estimated that up to €17,000 was spent on preparing for yesterday’s glamour inter-county double-header, which fell foul of the weather.

Old rivals Dublin and Kerry were due to meet in a senior football challenge while National Hurling League finalists Kilkenny and Tipperary were booked for a hurling clash.

The games were fixed as part of the GAA’s 125 celebrations, with a series of events organised by Grangemockler to remember former clubman Michael Hogan, who was buried in the village after he was shot on Bloody Sunday 1920.