Leinster coming to Croke Park for an enormous rugby match is a great coup for the GAA - we should not be so po-faced and precious about it
Malachy Clerkin: Don’t mind Newstalk’s Ciara Kelly - pitting sport against sport is completely outdated
Come one, come all. No bad cess, no ill feeling. For the second time this year, one of our flagship GAA stadiums has been sold out to the rafters for a rugby match. Couldn’t come at a better time either – sandwiched between Leinster football’s two “biggest” weekends, in front of attendances that wouldn’t pack out a parish hall. Rugger at Croker, filling a hole the GAA has dug for itself. And we think to ourselves, what a wonderful world.
“ don’t care what other things do, but rugby is still the foreign Sassenach sport and we’re not going to let them drink if we can’t drink,” she opined. “I think it’s a chip , I genuinely think it is. What does the GAA care what rugby fans do when they hire out Croke Park? They let other people drink there. I think it’s the foreign game, I think that’s what this is.”
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