Croke Park could be made available to other sports on a permanent basis.
In 2005, a motion was passed at the GAA Annual Congress which paved the way for rugby and soccer to be played at the home of Gaelic Games during the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road, which is shared by the Football Association of Ireland and the Irish Rugby Football Union.
With work on the revamped and renamed Aviva Stadium now almost complete and the ground set to re-open in the summer, it was expected that Croke Park would no longer be made available to either rugby or soccer.
However, it has now been revealed that five separate motions - from Westmeath, Meath, Kerry, Roscommon and Clare - to keep 'Croker' open to other sports have made it to the clar of next month's GAA Congress.
"Each of the motions are seeking to open Croke Park, not so much on temporary grounds, but on qualified grounds," GAA operations manager Feargal McGill told the Irish Times.
"In other words if or when there is a request or particular need to use Croke Park for other sports. From day one I suppose the only fear was that Croke Park would be used as a promotional tool for other sports, but it would certainly seem the mood is still there to keep it open if the need arises.
"It's also well understood that over the next 10 years the majority of the Six Nations rugby and the soccer internationals will be played in the new Aviva Stadium. So if Croke Park is to be used, it will be on a very limited basis, say a once-off international friendly which would draw a particularly large crowd.
"But it will keep the option open, although I would be amazed really if Croke Park was used for soccer or rugby more than once or twice over those 10 years."