Tyrone chairman Ciaran McLaughlin says Ulster Council has "missed out" on a financial windfall.

Donegal have managed to hold onto home advantage for their May 26th Ulster SFC opener against the O'Neill County, even though the capacity at Ballybofey is less than 18,000 and demand for tickets will greatly exceed this.

McLaughlin is of the opinion that the provincial council has missed a trick: "There would have been clubs which would have taken up the opportunity to bring bus-loads to that game," he says in The Irish News.

"That, for me, was where we missed out because we would have been able to market the game to a wider audience. There are people who want to get to the game that won't get to the game and that's not good.

"In 2009 we went to Clones when we were drawn at home to Armagh. We did it because we wanted to make sure that the number of people who got to the game was as high as it possibly could be.

"The Ulster Council themselves, in this modern day and age when things are economically very tight, know this is a game that people wanted to get to.

"We have two things going on here. A large volume of people going to the game would have created more income for the Ulster Council to distribute to the counties and the clubs.

"But, more importantly for me, to advertise the game amongst that U16 age group who don't have to pay in whenever it is not an all-ticket game." Tweet

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