{"id":475101,"date":"2026-05-30T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475101\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:37:10","slug":"gaa-confirms-it-will-not-reverse-decision-on-minor-all-ireland-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475101\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA Confirms It Will Not Reverse Decision On Minor All-Ireland Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electric Ireland Minor All-Ireland Championships will continue to be staged away from Croke Park, the GAA has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The minor hurling and football finals traditionally acted as the curtain-raiser for the senior fixtures on All-Ireland final days up until 2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, the decision was made to move the fixture away from Croke Park since 2022 and that new tradition is set to continue, according to a statement which has deems a return to old ways &#8216;not currently feasible&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>At today\u2019s meeting of Ard Chomhairle a report examining the possible alignment of minor<br aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>and senior All-Ireland finals was presented and adopted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It proposed, that while keeping an open attitude to the staging of curtain raisers before finals, the possible fixing of minor finals before senior finals, as was previously the practice, is not currently feasible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision means that minor finalists will continue to miss out on the Croke Park matchday experience, something which was a staple for young players who made it to the showpiece fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Minor hurling final was staged at Semple Stadium in Tipperary, while St Conleth&#8217;s Park in Newbridge played host to the football decider.<\/p>\n<p>Galway legend David Burke spoke to Balls.ie on the issue earlier this week, reflecting on when he togged out for the 2006 minor final at Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That was a huge occasion and then you get to watch the senior final after,&#8221; he reflected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get that opportunity as a young player, to be able to play in front of this crowd, play for your team and try to win. They are special times as a minor player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That would be one thing I&#8217;m kind of pushing for now. It would be great if the minors could get back playing before these big games as well. It would be great for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Derry minor boss Damien McErlain was critical of the move when speaking in 2024 ahead of his side&#8217;s final appearance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A lot of these lads won&#8217;t ever play at Croke Park,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c7245yv22dlo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told the BBC.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t have to be before the All-Ireland final, it could be before any of the senior Championship fixtures &#8211; semi-finals, quarter-finals, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the opportunity to win an All-Ireland minor title at Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are diluting it recently with no speeches, no interviews after games, no man of the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s starting to get ridiculous now. Nobody has ever communicated properly as to why that is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what bothers me and even when I do interviews like this I don&#8217;t really think there is anybody listening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/10-gaa-stars-love-island-656016\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 GAA Stars Who Would Have Done The Business On Love Island<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Electric Ireland Minor All-Ireland Championships will continue to be staged away from Croke Park, the GAA has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,204933,43],"class_list":["post-475101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-minor-all-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}