All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals should be given Sunday billing says National games development chairman

“If you have the All-Ireland quarter-finals in the calendar where we knew regardless of who was going to be in it, we could fill Croke Park," says Micheál Martin.

THE SUNDAY GAMES: Micheál Martin, Chairman National Games Committee, speaking during the Liberty Insurance GAA Annual Games Development Conference. Pic: Piaras O Midheach / SPORTSFILE.

The All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals should be made into a festival of hurling in Croke Park with Sunday throw-in times, according to one of the GAA’s leading officials.

National games development chairman Micheál Martin believes the inter-county game is intrinsic to the growth of Gaelic games among children and wants to see the fourth and fifth last games of the hurling championship given a Sunday afternoon billing in GAA HQ with ticket offers for juveniles.