Former GAA president Sean Kelly believes international soccer and rugby will be played in Croke Park again.

A decade ago, Kelly presided over the historic opening of Croke Park when Rule 42 was amended at Congress and GAA HQ staged soccer and rugby internationals while Lansdowne Road was being redeveloped. The FAI and IRFU are currently in ten-year tie-ins with the Aviva Stadium, which are due to expire in 2020, and Kelly expects Croker to re-emerge as a potential venue for major home matches in both codes:

"I'd say when the Aviva commitment is over they'll be back again," the Kerry man says in The Irish Examiner. "Croke Park is opened up permanently now.

"Five years ago my own club Kilcummin put forward a motion to that effect. It went through without any objection, so much so, most people don't even know it is open permanently now.

"They know they'd make a lot more money by having 82,000 at a match instead of 50,000. I'd be surprised if it didn't happen."

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