Tommy Lyons says there is no need for another GAA club in Stillorgan as the area is already well catered for by newly crowned Leinster club football champions Kilmacud Crokes. The GAA is eager to establish new clubs in large urban areas such as Stillorgan to cater for everyone who wants to play Gaelic games, but former Dublin and Offaly manager Lyons wants the status quo to remain in South Dublin. Lyons, who is part of the Kilmacud Crokes football backroom team and is a former chairman of the club, said: "What people don't realise is that there's three GAA clubs within three miles of each other. We have St. Olaf's and Ballinteer St. John's. If you got every other area the same, it'd be grand. "You can't set up another GAA club in Stillorgan. There's no land and there's enough clubs already. You have only two in Tallaght with Thomas Davis and St. Mark's. You have an awful lot of areas in the city with no GAA clubs. "You have Ballinteer St. John's, Olaf's and ourselves all catering for about maybe 70,000 people, of which only 10 per cent support GAA games. While we have a big population in Dublin, it's the third sport in Dublin in most areas." Tweet

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