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19th December 2018
10:46am GMT

It's almost that time of the GAA season again now. We're just over two months away from the junior and intermediate club finals in Croke Park and it will be even sooner when the teams left standing are journeying to Drumcondra from down or up the country to get their look at Croker.
We contacted Croke Park on Tuesday morning to see if the no entrance to the pitch policy for the last few years will still be in operation, but were unable to get through.
Kilkenny goalkeeper Eoin Murphy was part of the Glenmore team two years ago, and watching all the obstacles, ramps and tonne-weighing barricades panned out on the Croke Park surface for the Ireland's Fittest Family final last Sunday got him thinking.
"Yet they leave this shite go on."https://twitter.com/eoinscruff/status/1075161979587829765 This isn't the first and it probably won't be the last time that the Croke Park pitch holds up crowds, stages or objects heavier, and undoubtedly more damaging than a few club players looking for a kick or a puck. Let's have a look at some potentially, more upsetting activities the pitch has come through down through the years. Here was the scene in June 2011 - peak Championship season, mind, after a Take That concert.
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