The Gallagher brothers have settled their differences and are set to rock Croke Park on August 16/17 in 2025, which will affect the GAA calendar.
Any plans to extend the inter-county season in 2025 have been boxed in by confirmation that Oasis will play two concerts in Croke Park on August 16/17 next year as part of their reunion tour. The concerts were announced this morning.
The GAA will be discussing the calendar for 2025 and beyond and the shape of the football championship at a Central Council meeting next week.
While no guarantee that the All-Ireland finals would be pushed into August, it was still due to be under consideration with some leading officials keen to push for an extension of a couple of weeks, chiefly to allow space between the All-Ireland finals and time for replays.
But counties surveyed on their preferences in recent weeks were largely split on retaining the inter-county window as it is, and if anything leaned towards retention.
The GAA’s gate receipts for 2024 are understood to have fallen by up to €2m but that can’t be attributable alone to the calendar with pairings and the general level of football entertainment also a factor.
The Gallagher brothers have settled their differences and are set to rock Croke Park on August 16/17 in 2025, which will affect the GAA calendar.
The dates of the Oasis concerts would leave Sunday, August 10 as the last realistic date for an All-Ireland final but that does not factor in the All-Ireland ladies football and camogie finals which have been taking place in the two weeks after the All-Ireland football final for the last three years, up to the second weekend in August.
Even if an All-Ireland football final was pushed out to August 10 in 2025, a potential replay would have to be facilitated on the weekend of August 23/24, shortening the time for club activity for those involved in a replay.
Under the current shape of the season it is difficult to see how any of the All-Ireland finals, including ladies football and camogie, could be pushed out to the end August so the prospect of change in time for next year looks remote.
