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Replying To brayballer:  "Thats the Jarlath Burns line Fionn and of course the gaa coaches benefit from money but are you telling me that if Croke park was nt used for other sports the gaa would not have money to coach kids.No money shortage in the gaa."
My last post didn't get by the filter... a perfectly reasonable post I'll may add.

Anyhow, please provide some rationale for the statements above... what's your evidence? Feel free to refer to GAA's own financial statements and the value of debt owned to the GAA by it's various units. Also you should comment on what you might think it would cost to redevelop stadiums such as Semple stadium and the like.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2385 - 30/08/2026 12:31:54    2691931

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Replying To brayballer:  "Thats the Jarlath Burns line Fionn and of course the gaa coaches benefit from money but are you telling me that if Croke park was nt used for other sports the gaa would not have money to coach kids.No money shortage in the gaa."
"No money shortage in GAA" because they do a fairly good job in maximising all potential commercial revenue streams.

If they were to deny themselves a €14 million revenue stream but still wanted the same output on Coaching & Games and everything else, well then, they'd have to generate that €14 million elsewhere. And if they didn't have that €14 million to spend, they'd have to cut the budgets for coaching and all sorts of other things.

This is pretty basic stuff.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3937 - 30/08/2026 13:01:14    2691936

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Replying To Square_B:  "My last post didn't get by the filter... a perfectly reasonable post I'll may add.

Anyhow, please provide some rationale for the statements above... what's your evidence? Feel free to refer to GAA's own financial statements and the value of debt owned to the GAA by it's various units. Also you should comment on what you might think it would cost to redevelop stadiums such as Semple stadium and the like."
To update Semple and Killarney will need many many €millions.

Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 894 - 30/08/2026 13:45:42    2691941

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