GAA property debate set to rumble on

ONE of the GAA’s longest running passion plays should come to an end on Saturday afternoon in Newcastle, Co Down when the association’s delegates are expected to give Central Council the right to admit soccer and rugby games to Croke Park in perpetuity.

It is just short of 10 years — October 2000 to be exact — since a motion was passed at a meeting of the Kilmore club in Roscommon proposing that the old Rule 42 be amended and the GAA’s flagship stadium be opened to ‘foreign’ games.

Fittingly, Kilmore will be front and centre again at the weekend.