 Recognising the potential of the Jones' Road sports ground a journalist and GAA member, Frank Dineen, borrowed much of the £3,250 asking price and bought the ground in 1908.In 1913 the GAA came into exclusive ownership of the plot when they purchased it from Dineen for £3,500.The ground was then renamed Croke Park in honour of Archbishop Thomas Croke, one of the GAA's first patrons.