League as Championship proposal could earn GAA an extra €10m

Former Meath minor football manager Conor O’Donoghue, a member of the national calendar fixtures task-force, has based his projections on the pre-Covid 2018 and 2019 seasons
League as Championship proposal could earn GAA an extra €10m

The Sam Maguire Cup. Croke Park has not yet presented any data on how the two proposed championship reconfigurations might affect gate receipts. Picture credit: Brendan Moran / SPORTSFILE

Wed, 13 Oct, 2021 - 00:00
John Fogarty

The League as Championship proposal could earn the GAA over €10m more in gate receipts alone than they would do from a regular senior inter-county football season.

That is according to analysis done by former Meath minor football manager Conor O’Donoghue, a member of the national calendar fixtures task-force.

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