Hurling league crowds holding up

Attendances for the opening three rounds of Division 1A hurling are in keeping with last year but Division 1 football crowds are thus far down on 2018.

The total number who attended the first nine games of last year’s top flight hurling was 69,834, an average of 7,759. Excluding the Clare- Kilkenny game in Ennis earlier this month for which no attendance was announced, this year’s estimated figure is 61,622, an average of 7,702.