Mr. Páraic Duffy:

-----and at the end of the meeting we felt we had all agreed a settlement. We were all delighted that we had solved the problem on the basis that we would go ahead and build a new centre on the Croke Villas site and include a bar there for the use of local residents. Mr. Mulvey thought we had an agreement. Unfortunately, one of the key handball people had not been at the meeting, as he had been in Belfast on the same day dealing with issues around the redevelopment of Casement Park. The handball group subsequently told us we did not have an agreement. We had given in to most of their requests because we wanted to resolve the problem, which had existed for a long time and was annoying a small number of local residents. While we did not physically shake hands, we felt we had an agreement, and two weeks later the handball group told us it would not accept it. While this is part of the problem, we went more than half way to resolving it and Mr. Mulvey would be very happy to verify the process and tell the committee the GAA did everything possible to resolve it as part of the process around the concerts.