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====GAA==== [[File:Croke Park from the Hill - 2004 All-Ireland Football Championship Final.jpg|thumb|[[Croke Park]]]] [[Croke Park]] is the largest sport stadium in Ireland. The headquarters of the [[Gaelic Athletic Association]], it has a capacity of 82,300. It is the third-largest stadium in Europe after [[Nou Camp]] in Barcelona and [[Wembley Stadium]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crokepark.ie/stadium|title=Croke Park Stadium|publisher=Crokepark.ie|access-date=13 October 2016|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107023043/https://crokepark.ie/stadium|url-status=live}}</ref> It hosts the premier [[Gaelic football]] and [[hurling]] games, [[international rules football]] and irregularly other sporting and non-sporting events including concerts. Muhammad Ali fought there in 1972 and it played host to the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2003 [[Special Olympics]]. It also has conference and banqueting facilities. There is a GAA Museum there and tours of the stadium are offered, including a rooftop walk of the stadium. During the redevelopment of [[Lansdowne Road]], Croke Park played host to the [[Ireland national rugby union team|Irish Rugby Union Team]] and [[Republic of Ireland national football team]] as well as hosting the [[Heineken Cup]] rugby [[2008β09 Heineken Cup#Semi-finals|2008β09 semi-final]] between Munster and Leinster, which set a world record attendance for a club rugby match.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/world-record-crowd-watches-harlequins-sink-saracens-20120331-1w60r|title=World record crowd watches Harlequins sink Saracens|access-date=27 April 2012|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=1 April 2012|archive-date=3 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903221013/http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/world-record-crowd-watches-harlequins-sink-saracens-20120331-1w60r|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Dublin GAA]] team plays most of their home league hurling games at [[Parnell Park]].
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