Dublin will not have ‘first call’ on €8m centre, insists Duffy

GAA director general Páraic Duffy insists Dublin won’t get first call on the Association’s new €8m centre of excellence on the National Sports Campus (NSC) in Blanchardstown.

Although Dublin see the five floodlit pitch facility becoming their new training home, Duffy said it will be made available to all counties to rent when the pitches are completed next year.

Approximately €2m of the total accrued from rugby and soccer games being played in Croke Park has been ringfenced for the Dublin County Board’s plan to develop a centre in Rathcoole in the south-west of the county.