Attendances have been poor, admits Walsh

MUNSTER Council chairman Sean Walsh has admitted that attendances at the province’s championship games have been disappointing thus far but the Kerry native has predicted an abrupt about-turn in the coming weeks.

A combined attendance of 7,234 have watched the two football ties between Kerry and Tipperary, in Thurles, and Waterford and Clare which was held in Dungarvan the weekend before last.

It has been a similar situation in both Leinster and Ulster. Just over 7,000 people watched last Sunday’s football double-header in Portlaoise while the Derry-Armagh clash in Celtic Park only just broke into five figures.