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    Philip Browne, chief executive of the IRFU, and his FAI counterpart, John Delaney, were pressed on that issue by a cross-party selection of politicians at an Oireachtas Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs yesterday. "The Aviva Stadium will be a different type of stadium to Croke Park but I just feel that an opportunity has been missed in terms of sharing facilities, for instance when there is a big Ireland-England game in Dublin ... The maximum amount of fans should be accommodated and tickets for those big games in the Aviva Stadium will be as hard to come by as for a World Cup final." O’Mahony’s sentiments were shared by Deputy Mary Upton, Deputy Michael Kennedy, Senator Jerry Buttimer and committee chairman Deputy Tom Kitt, the last of whom raised the matter on three separate occasions. Full Article at Irish Examiner
    The Aviva Stadium will be a different type of stadium to Croke Park but I just feel that an opportunity has been missed in terms of sharing facilities, for instance when there is a big Ireland-England game in Dublin ... The maximum amount of fans should be accommodated and tickets for those big games in the Aviva Stadium will be as hard to come by as for a World Cup final.
    John Delaney SOURCE: Irish Examiner 1 month ago