Leinster Council won’t budge on Galway board demands

The demands of the Galway County Board for a bigger percentage of gate receipts from their home fixtures in the Leinster SHC will not be acceded to by the Leinster Council when the two parties meet later this month.

At last month’s Galway GAA convention, county board treasurer Mike Burke, when outlining the 15% of gross gate receipts the county received from their Leinster round-robin games against Kilkenny and Dublin at Pearse Stadium, told delegates: “We need to get a bigger percentage of the gates.” He also claimed Galway was “not getting a fair deal from Leinster”.