Offaly GAA officials have turned to Croke Park for financial assistance to help them solve their cash crisis.

The Examiner reports that the Faithful County are struggling to meet their ongoing repayments for the redeveloped O'Connor Park.

Apparently, more than €200,000 is also owed to creditors with the GAA's National Finance Committee recently intervening.

It's understood that the National Finance Committee will draw up a bailout plan for the county which is expected to be ratified at a full county board meeting next month.

"O'Connor Park needs to be more self sustaining," said Offaly chairman Pádraig Boland.

"It has the potential to do it. We need to be more focused on that. We have been run like a voluntary organisation. We need to be more professional.

"We are not casting aspersions on anyone who has been here before. The people who were here before did very well to keep the ball in the air while playing into a gale force wind but we are where we are and my job as chairman is to lead us out of it.

"We will get out of it but we need help from Croke Park."

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