THE GAA ARE advising supporters to arrive early for this weekend’s games at Croke Park, with Saturday’s double-header projected to be close to capacity.
Saturday will see Meath and Down contest the Tailteann Cup final at 3pm, which will be followed by the All-Ireland senior football semi-final between Dublin and Monaghan, throwing in at 5.30pm.
The GAA expect Croke Park to be close to a full-house for these games, with tickets still available for Sunday’s semi-final between Kerry and Derry, which throws in at 4pm.
In a statement today, the GAA called on fans to arrive early, with turnstiles open from 1.30pm on Saturday and from 12.30pm on Sunday.
The statement also makes clear that “anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated”, with footage of individual flashpoints on Hill-16 widely shared on social media across the last two weeks. Added to that, the GAA say “supporters are reminded that items such as flares and smoke cannisters are dangerous and illegal and are not permitted inside the stadium.”
Oh well that is okay then.
@Gillian Scully: They were proved innocent, what about Western Athletes on TUE’s from Wada?
@Alois Irlmaier: not proved innocent, just not proved guilty. Big difference.
Is the wording relevant? They found that they hadn’t benefited from it, does that mean they didn’t do it at all or they did it and failed?
Have lost interest in Olympic sport a long time ago. Don’t trust anything I see.
Great news !
Life bans are ridiculous they are hard to maintain in real courts of law, CAS/DRA once sports rulings impinge on natural justice they are in trouble. Blanket bans are politically motivated decisions, athletes are entitled to serve a time ban. Not that it means anything any way look at the persecution of the Munster Rugby player – crazy
Lee Evans said it best. Just let them all take drugs. Do the bobsled event by running down the track in about 4.5 seconds. I’d watch That!
@David O’Brien: yep . Just have 2 seperate events juiced vs clean and have a big event after to see if clean can beat juiced naturally.
@David O’Brien: They are as they are called TUE’s once that country pays a wad of cash to the right organisation, which Russia hasn’t.
Not sufficient evidence?? The head of the lab said there overwhelming amount. Of doping lol
@Chris Finn: Is that the same head who got US citizenship for saying that the Russian athletes took drugs and was set up in his own lab in the US. Why give him his own lab??? The same man who told athletes to drink the steroids in Martinis, that was funny as steroids are injected not mixed in alcohol that can change the steroid chemically. As well as sticking bottles in and out of holes in a wall where there was never any evidence of holes in the wall… But who cares about facts… They are Russian so they must have done something bad because the US tells us what to believe…
IOC in my view trying to save face, if Russia doesn’t play by U.S. political rules dictated by their own business lobbyists the U.S. will turn the West against Russia. The US has turned the Olympics into a political battle field while Western Athletes continue with their TUE’s where asthmatics are being used to win gold medals for countries over healthy athletes. The corruption in my view just blows my mind…