Croke Park to host Interpro finals
Croke Park will host the Interprovincial football final this autumn for the first time since 1991, after the Competitions Control Committee of the GAA decided to fix this year's finals of the Interpro hurling and football competitions for GAA headquarters.
The finals will get the floodlit treatment at Croke Park after failing to draw big crowds at provincial venues and on foreign soil in recent seasons.
It will only be the fourth occasion since 1980 that Croke Park has staged the football final while the hurling decider has not been played at the Jones' Road ground since 1995.
Croke Park will stage a double header of finals on the night of Saturday, October 20 with the semi-finals taking placed the previous Saturday at provincial venues.
Two years ago, the football series was affected by the International Rules tour which coincided with the competition, but this year with no Rules series, the competition is set to get the full focus from the GAA.
In recent years the football and hurling finals were played alternately on foreign soil but this autumn a large crowd is expected at Croke Park for the finals of two competitions, which drew attendances in excess of 60,000 to the stadium at the height of the Railway Cups in the 1960s and 1970s.
2007 M DONNELLY INTERPROVINCIAL FOOTBALL SEMI-FINALS -
Connacht v Leinster, Munster v Ulster (venues to be confirmed)
2007 M DONNELLY INTERPROVINCIAL HURLING SEMI-FINALS -
Munster v Leinster, Connacht v Ulster (venues to be confirmed)
