Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Supplementary)

2:00 am

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)

Given the particular needs - American football teams' squad sizes are much bigger than what an average Gaelic football team would be or even those of other sports which have been hosted in Croke Park previously - to be able to host the NFL game, there needed to be alterations made to the dressing rooms and expansions made and capital works as a result of that. As part of this year's allocation, a minority of that went towards the works at the stadium.

Some of the work that happened as well was the upgrading of IT infrastructure and camera infrastructure to be able to produce it to the standard that the NFL would normally work to. That is work which will stand to the stadium. It is work that is done. It is work that will hold as well for any future engagements. It will not need to be repeated should we host - which, hopefully, we will - an NFL game there, this year and in future years.

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