GAA count the cost of Dublin’s failure to reach NFL decider

THE GAA is counting the cost of Dublin’s failure to reach this month’s NFL Division One final.

Ironically the Association’s decision to tweak its own rules has prevented such a money-spinning decider.

It is estimated that an appearance by Pat Gilroy’s side in the final would have been worth in the region of half amillion euro in gate receipts – at a conservative estimate – thanks to the leap in spectator numbers.