Cork's 'crusade' to win the Liam MacCarthy Cup, and the huge support enjoyed by Pat Ryan's team, helped the GAA to report bumper gate receipts for 2025. The GAA's annual accounts recorded a figure of €45.7m for gate receipts last season, up €6.6m, or 17 percent, from 2024. He reiterated the claim of GAA Director General Tom Ryan, himself a former finance director, that the set of accounts amounted to 'a universally positive year'. Ard Stiúrthóir of the GAA Tom Ryan alongisde GAA director of finance Ger Mulryan during the GAA Annual Report launch at Croke Park. He claimed that it would help 'impose a degree of discipline on us in an environment where immediate senior county team spend and success would otherwise be the main priority'.

Source: Irish Examiner February 13, 2026 04:00 UTC