Super 8 All-Ireland does not promise financial ‘bonanza’, says GAA director

The forthcoming Super 8 All-Ireland senior football championship quarter-final stages do not promise a financial “bonanza”, insisted GAA director of finance Tom Ryan.

After the GAA yesterday reported both gate receipts and attendances were up across the board in 2017, there will be eight extra matches at the business end of the SFC as well as 12 more provincial hurling games.

However, Ryan isn’t wholly convinced the GAA stand to reap a major windfall from the Super 8, which will see eight teams play three times, the first time in Croke Park and then one home and one away match.