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Article: GAA break own rules by opening Croke Park before Lansdowne work begins.(SPORT)
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2007
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Byline: MARTIN BREHENY in Dubai
THE GAA has sold out on its principles by opening Croke Park to other sports and is also breaking its own rules by allowing rugby and soccer international to take place there next month.
That's the strident view of Ulster Council chairman Michael Greenan, who is also a vice-president of the GAA. He is due to step down as Ulster chairman at the end of next month, ironically on the day Ireland play England in a Six Nations rugby international in Croke Park, although he insists the provincial convention's clash with the big game is purely coincidental.
In a searing critique of the GAA's links with rugby and soccer, ...