Last year's Leinster semi-final doubleheader attracted just over 21,000 at Croke Park making it the lowest attendance for that stage of the competition for 14 years.

It was a crowd that did the game justice. On Sunday past, there were 21,596 people in Croke Park for the Division One and Three league finals. There had been just 11,000 there on Saturday evening ...

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.

Leinster GAA are marking their first senior football semi-finals outside Croke Park in 30 years with incentivised group passes for this Sunday’s games. After cutting the price of an adult stand ...