A vast majority of people polled about the GAA championships said they don't believe they should go ahead.
Asked should the All-Ireland Championship be played in 2020, 67% of 1,000 adults polled said no.
The result, from a poll by Amárach Research for the RTÉ's Claire Byrne Live, comes as the Government announced that the country would move to Level 5 restrictions from midnight on Wednesday with elite sport, including senior inter-county football and hurling, set to continue being closed doors.
Twenty-four per cent said yes, the GAA championships, which are due to start next weekend, should go ahead, while 9% didn’t know.
"I'm surprised with that, of course the majority of the players want it to go ahead," former Meath player and RTÉ GAA analyst Colm O’Rourke told the progamme.
"There is this perception that there is some danger created by these games being played, but the danger to players or anybody else is quite minor when you have teams travelling individually to games, the games behind closed doors.
"They break up straight after the matches and go home. People are being a little bit pessimistic in that regard."
The inter-county season restarted at the weekend after being shut down in March due to the coronavirus outbreak with a number of underage and Allianz League games taking place across the country.
Reacting to the poll, former Mayo star David Brady said: "There are a lot of people at home tonight that sport and GAA are not the fulcrum of their fear right now.
"That’s probably borne out in the survey but I think what happened over the last three days – and there was games Friday, Under-20s, Saturday and Sunday, for a lot of people it was the last thing they have, is GAA.
"The most important people here are the players because what they done yesterday was not represented their counties, they represented the country."
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The Ireland men's and women's rugby teams are also due to restart their suspended Guinness Six Nations campaigns this Saturday and Monday's night's news means those games, against Italy at the Aviva and at Energia Stadiums can go ahead.
On the news that elite sport was exempt, O’Rourke said: "We need sport, it’s the modern opium of the people.
"It’s not just football and hurling but horse racing and soccer and all the other games as well, the rugby internationals.
"They will help brighten up the dark days in the winter.
"The All-Ireland championship will give a big boost to a lot of people, particularly old people, who are sort of locked up indefinitely in the run-up to Christmas."
"For a lot of people GAA was the last thing they have" - David Brady
— Claire Byrne Live (@ClaireByrneLive) October 19, 2020
Former Mayo Gaelic Footballer @D9BMayo chats to #CBLive about how the GAA Championship is set to proceed under the new Level 5 rules. pic.twitter.com/mMds2onWUf
