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The Liam MacCarthy and Sam Maguire cups will remain at Croke Park this year and the homecoming parades of soccer and hurling champions from across Ireland will be postponed.
GAA President John Horan confirmed that the trophies will not leave the venue for fear that “they will be a focus of crowd gathering.”
“The country is still in a pandemic and we must be careful,” he said on The Late Late Show.
“The mugs will not leave Croke Park. They will be kept at Croke Park. It is our concern that the mugs will be a focus of crowd gathering and additional social activity around the mugs.
“We feel we have to be responsible for this. The clubs will see them and the schools will see them in time, but we just feel that the way the country is and the way the pandemic is resting at the moment. It would be better if them. There will be no homecoming for the winning teams.
“The county boards are aware of that and the players know it and have bought it. We appreciate what we got from this. We got a championship. We had great entertainment.
“I think anyone who wins an All-Ireland would be tarnished if a big outbreak occurred in a particular area. We should learn from the experiences in England, where Liverpool and Leeds were successful and crowds gathered in big squares.”
Dublin faces Cavan in the All-Ireland SFC semi-final on Saturday with Tipperary and Mayo meeting in the other quarter-final clash on Sunday. The final takes place on December 19.
Next weekend, Waterford and Limerick will fight in the All-Ireland SHC decider.
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Watch Dublin v Cavan (Saturday 5:30 PM) and Mayo v Tipperary (Sunday 3:30 PM) live on RTÉ2, hear live commentary on RTÉ Radio 1, and get live blogs, reports and reactions on RTÉ Sport Online and the RTÉ News app. The best of the game on Sunday, 9:30 p.m. RTÉ2
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