Croke Park is ‘only option’ for Dublin footballers

Leinster chairman John Horan has defended the province’s decision to keep the Dublin footballers in Croke Park.

At yesterday’s championship launch in Phoenix Park’s Farmleigh House, the Dublin native revealed Leinster are contractually obliged to stage four matches at GAA HQ as part of an agreement on use of the stadium.

This year, of their 22 senior games the Leinster Council will stage six in Croke Park — the Dublin footballers and hurlers’ Leinster quarter-final double-header on May 31, the football semi-finals on June 28 and the hurling and football deciders on July 5 and 12 respectively.