The Leinster council of the GAA says that there is an increasing need for a mid-level stadium to be built in order to stage more matches outside of Dublin.
The council is once again being forced to defend their decision to fix all Leinster championship matches involving the Dubs at Croke Park.
The reigning Leinster champions are never asked to travel away from the capital for their provincial fixtures as the council looks to cater to demand for tickets and also to boost their coffers.
Offaly manager Pat Flanagan is the latest inter-county manager to criticise the practice, as he did on Off The Ball tonight.
But Leinster council chairman John Horan, who also joined us on the show, has admitted that a new facility outside the capital is what they need to appease the critics.
"You're in a Catch 22 situation here. The GAA is an amateur organisation that has developed a fantastic facility and probably what we need is a step-down facility located in Leinster of 35,000, probably outside of Dublin and outside the M50. That would be the ideal if it could be done and we'll have a stadium with 35-40,000 and then you could play the spring series matches that Dublin play in the national league out there and you would create a far better atmosphere," he said.
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