A general view of St Tiernach's Park which should have hosted the Ulster GAA Football Senior Championship clash between Monaghan and Cavan
To mark what was supposed to be start of the GAA Championship, Sportsfile photographers traveled to some of the grounds that were due to host those games at the weekend.
This weekend, May 9 and 10, was due to be the first weekend of games in Ireland of the GAA All-Ireland Senior Championship, beginning with provincial matches, which have been postponed following directives from the Irish Government and the Department of Health in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Offaly supporter Mick McDonagh, from Tullamore, pictured outside Bord na Mona O'Connor Park on the afternoon that Carlow and Offaly were supposed to playA member of the public passes TEG Cusack Park on the afternoon when the Leinster GAA Football Senior Championship Round 1 match between Louth and Longford should have been played at TEG Cusack Park in Mullingar.Borris-Kilcotton hurler Brian Stapleton, Laois, and Johnstownbridge camogie player Róisín Stapleton, Kildare, watch TV in their living-room overlooking MW Hire O'Moore ParkThurles groundsman Dave Hanley ties his boot laces before doing a check around the property on the evening of the Munster GAA Football Senior Championship quarter-final match between Tipperary and Clare at Semple StadiumTony and Kay O'Sullivan, from Marino, Dublin, during an afternoon walk pass Parnell Park where Dublin and Kilkenny we due to meeting in the hurlingGroundsman Dave Ormonde surveys the empty pitch on the afternoon when the Leinster GAA Football Senior Championship Round 1 match between Wexford and Wicklow was scheduled to take placeTadhg Sauvage, age 3, outside Walsh Park where Waterford and Tipperary should have meet in the Munster Hurling Senior ChampionshipDanny, left, and Paddy Harty, from Dungarvan, Waterford, pass Fraher Field on the evening of the Munster GAA Senior Football Championship match between Waterford and LimerickPáirc Uí Chaoimh was due to host the Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Round 1 between Cork and LimerickDandelions growing on the Avantcard Páirc Seán MacDiarmada, where Leitrim and Mayo were scheduled to meet
