Fowl payout at Croke Park not chicken feed for GAA

CROKE PARK Stadium manager Peter McKenna has revealed a fowl cost of hosting international rugby games at GAA headquarters.

Stadium bosses spent €15,000 to kill and then test three chickens which were brought into the ground by visiting fans prior to the Six Nations clash with France at the height of the Avian Flu pandemic.

“Paying €5,000 a bird to have bantam chickens put down before the first French game because of fears over Avian Flu was a lowlight,” McKenna admitted in today’s eight page Irish Examiner Six Nations section.