The pitch manager at Croke Park has said it will be a "great day ... but looks after the pitch at the stadium in Dublin. He said his wife and two sons will be at the game "in [Leinster] blue ...

For a long time the GAA missed that trick. If music was played after a match it would have been one of the old staples from ...

But in a stadium the size of Croke Park, it felt like nothing ... is part of the cultural fabric of Ireland itself. Its homegrown pitch is one of the best surfaces in any grass sporting arena.

He said: “The logic behind it was that we were playing games in Croke Park with half or quarter of an empty stadium. The atmosphere wasn’t there. “Dublin will travel anywhere. They’re a ...

"We looked at the last number of semi-finals and the emptiness of the Croke Park stadium," Leinster GAA chair Derek Kent explained. "There was less of an atmosphere and teams were travelling to be ...