‘It cost my club £35,000 to play one match last year’

BACK at the very fag-end of 2017, Roscommon manager Kevin McStay revealed he was struggling to make savings on the cost of the senior football team.

‘It cost my club £35,000 to play one match last year’

BACK at the very fag-end of 2017, Roscommon manager Kevin McStay revealed he was struggling to make savings on the cost of the senior football team.

He estimated the average cost per week at €15,000. It caused mild alarm and since then the revelations around the bloated figures spent at inter-county level have flowed. Recently, it was revealed that the entire expenditure of inter-county action stands just shy of €30 million per annum.

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