Dublin’s home comforts to scoop €20m for capital

DUBLIN’S home league games in Croke Park are set to net at least €20 million for the capital.

The city’s exchequer will benefit significantly from the decision by the Dublin County Board, the GAA and Croke Park to stage four of the county footballer’s NFL Division One games and two of the hurler’s NHL top-flight games over four dates this spring.

Over 160,000 people attended the last two league games Dublin played at headquarters when they played Tyrone in 2007 and 2009, and with ticket packages for the four dates priced at €45 for adults and €10 for children and individual adult tickets likely to cost €20 for the series, a conservative figure of 40,000 adult paying customers per date would bring in over €20m into the capital’s coffers.