Laois fuming after 'overlooked' offer to host Dublin football quarter final

Laois GAA chairman Gerry Kavanagh claims the county offered to take a €40,000 hit to host Dublin next summer.

Laois are fuming at the decision to overlook O’Moore Park base in favour of Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park for the Dubs’ June 4 Leinster football quarter-final tie.

All-Ireland champions Dublin will play Laois or Wicklow, and Kavanagh said his county were so keen on staging the game, they offered to waive their right, as hosts, to ‘ground rent’. But provincial officials still favoured Nowlan Park, which has around 11,000 more seats than Portlaoise’s O’Moore Park.