Man Utd trip to Ireland causes chaos as GAA team forced to abandon plans for training camp at luxury facility

Manchester United’s mid-season trip to Ireland has caused chaos for one of the giants of Irish sport as GAA side Armagh were forced to abandon plans to train at the same facility. Michael Carrick’s side are due to spend four days in Ireland from April 6 as part of a team building exercise ahead of their final seven games of the Premier League season.
However, the team’s trip has caused major disruption for Armagh, who were crowned All-Ireland county football champions in 2024 and were intending to train at the same venue, Carton House in in County Kildare, the week before. According to Irish News, Armagh turned up at Carton House on Friday morning only to find that the pitches were set up for English football rather than Gaelic football.

They requested that the pitches would be re-lined for their afternoon session and did a running session in the meantime. However, the venue told them that they could no re-line the pitch. Armagh then suggested that they re-line the pitch themselves, a request which was also turned down by Carton House. Armagh then took the difficult decision to abandon camp and make the two-hour journey back home.
The Irish News report added that Armagh had booked the camp weeks in advance after failing to advance to the Division One league final. They have now been left with no opportunity to reorganise the camp two weeks before their first game of the new season.

United are heading to Ireland in order to make the most of a 24-day gap between their last Premier League match at Bournemouth on March 20 and their next game against Leeds on April 16.