Munster Gaelic Athletic Association gate receipts dropped by 34% in '16, "reducing the province's take at the turnstiles" by €1.64M ($1.76M), according to Colm Keys of the IRISH INDEPENDENT. Such a "heavy hit" was due to "a number of obvious factors, notably the absence of a football final replay that helped bump up" the organization's take to €4.83M ($5.17M) in '15. But the €3.19M ($3.41M) from '16 reflects the absence of a replay, a Munster football final without Cork and Kerry and a Munster hurling final between Tipperary and Waterford that was played in Limerick's Gaelic Grounds in "poor weather conditions" and not Semple Stadium in Thurles. Munster GAA "put the drop largely down" to "tradition" and is looking at '17 in a "more positive light." These three factors account for 83% of the drop on '15 figures. Without the replay, the drop is 24.5%. Overall attendances at Munster Championship games fell 25% from 320,252 in '15 to 238,661. Take out the '15 replay attendance and the drop otherwise is 49,357, or 15%. Leinster GAA is also "expected to reveal sharp falls in gate revenue" when its accounts are presented to convention this month, "with the Dublin/Laois game in Nowlan Park, the clash of the football semi-final double-bill with the Ireland v France Euro 2016 game and the absence of Kildare and Meath in a Leinster football final all contributing" (IRISH INDEPENDENT, 1/17).