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Replying To cuttothebone:  "Do you want the Connacht centre of excellence rebuilt or not? Do you expect these things to just grow out of the ground? Ye don't have a hurling championship, and have smallest football championship, there's very few occasions they can make money.. Stay away if your unfortunate enough not to be able to afford it, but im sure their all ears if you have an alternative plan."
Prenty said In public that separate money will be spent on the COE. What is getting rebuilt is the dome and debatable if it needed. Another storm will likely take it again.

To make money you look to attract the biggest possible crowd to attend a match, once in attendance further money can be made on programmes food etc. All the Connnacht GAA did was turn plenty away from attending awful business sense and then are complaining about losing money you really can't make it up.

Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 807 - 28/04/2026 12:03:34    2669477

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Replying To Seanfan:  "Hurling
Cork v Limerick 43,369
Waterford v Tipp 11,982
Galway v Offaly 6,557
Dublin v Kildare ?????
Kilkenny v Wexford 13,576

Football
Tipp v Cork 1,755
Clare v Kerry 5,226
Mayo v Ros 15,321
Leitrim v Galway 4,843
Fermanagh v Armagh 8,931
Donegal v Down said to be full to 9k capacity."
There was 5/6,000 at the Dublin/Kildare match,

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4239 - 28/04/2026 13:09:10    2669513

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Replying To Seanfan:  "The type of people who are "confused" obviously haven't great interest in the first place.
Not defending JP but it was €5 for kids on 3 sides of the ground Sunday.
Kids tickets in Croke Park are Davin end see through the nets seats.
If due to no hurling and only 5 matches on Irish soil shouldn't the GAA have some kind of equalisation fund to help out.
Munster with its €8m hurling receipts could help out too."
I agree re interest, but the reality is that attendances at matches are swelled by the casual supporter. This is the difficulty facing professional sport in particular, balancing the values of the sport with the need to drive revenue through entertainment.
Most counties have a core support of somewhere between 3,000 to maybe 12,000 at the extreme (Cork hurlers would stand alone at 20,000 plus I reckon, more than Dublin footballers) . So 6,000 to 10,000 at most matches is about where you'd expect. If you put any obstacle in the way of people outside this core they will stay away.

Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1315 - 28/04/2026 17:07:14    2669596

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