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Robert Hynes

More GAA Cul Camps places to be made available after website crashed

More GAA Cul Camps places are to be made available after their website crashed on Monday.

The number of places will be down on last year and the start date will not be moved forward despite contact training being allowed sooner than July 20.

Numbers will be down due to the smaller window and because some clubs may not host camps due to the coronavirus pandemic.

GAA Cul Camps co-ordinator Charlie Harrison told RTE's Morning Ireland: "I want to acknowledge that the website did crash. To put into context we have 650 clickthroughs per second, 40,000 per minute.

"It's a 2000% increase compared to our busiest day last year. We're trying to deal with those issues right now.

"The website is opened currently for people that booked pre-Covid and during the Covid issue, before we knew what way we were going to continue with the website.

"We had 4,000 people that booked and we offered them three options, one was to have a priority code to book their camp for the summer.

"We have a number of camps on the website now. They are only available to those that have the priority code.

"We are dealing with the GAA advisory group and adhering to the guidelines recommended by the GAA advisory group.

"There aren't the number of camps we would have had previously. Last year we would have had 1,250 camps available over nine weeks. It's five weeks this year so we don't have the same amount we had previously."

The Sligo footballer added: "We're dealing with the problems with the website now and hoping it will be available for booking from tomorrow onwards.

"Our developers are dealing with the issue right now. We have 500 camps on the system at present. Incrementally the clubs will come back to us and let us know if they would like to host a camp over the next two or three weeks.

"There will be more and more camps going up on the system."

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