Breffni Park

Kingspan Breffni—known for sponsorship reasons as Kingspan Breffni — is a GAA stadium in Cavan, Republic of Ireland.It is the home of the Cavan Gaelic football team. The ground has an overall capacity of about 32,000 with a 6,000 seated capacity. Breffni is the historic name for area of Cavan/Leitrim. Cavan is often referred to as the Breffni County. The opening game of the 2013 International Rules Series took place in Kingspan Breffni in October.Kingspan Breffni is located on Park Lane to the south of Cavan town, see Map In 2006, the first ever women's match in international rules football was played between Australia and Ireland there. The venue also holds the world record for the twelve-hour continuous relay race.HistoryBreffni Park was opened in 1923. The opening was attended by Eoin O'Duffy who gave a speech calling on the GAA to "bring together all sections of the Irish people" to "save the youth of Ireland from the sea of moral degradation into which they were travelling".AthleticsIn June 2009, the world record for the twelve-hour continuous relay race was broken by 1,868 participants.