Martin Skelly: Don’t fund the M50 stadium

GAA presidential candidate and former Leinster Council chairman Martin Skelly has claimed neither Croke Park nor the provincial body should commit a cent to any proposed new stadium alongside the M50 motorway.

The possibility of a ground housing anything between 25-40,000 people being built along the country’s busiest stretch of road has been mooted on and off for over half-a-decade and the project now looks to be very much back on the cards.

Current Leinster chairman John Horan was widely quoted last week making the case for the project. Current GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail has also spoken of the possibility while his predecessor Liam O’Neill was all for the concept 12 months ago.