Grand Prix athletics event may be a runner for Croke Park

RUGBY and soccer have already been welcomed into the renovated Croke Park and athletics may join them in the years to come, with stadium chiefs actively considering the possibility of hosting a Grand Prix event.

Athletics meets are no strangers to a venue which hosted the Tailteann Games on numerous occasions in the past but, with Lansdowne Road getting ready to reopen its doors, Croke Park will be looking elsewhere for business.

Whether the pitch area is large enough to accommodate an eight-lane athletics track is open to question but Jarlath Burns, chairman of the GAA’s 125 Committee, believes the idea is a runner.