The GAA are set to move Dublin's All-Ireland quarter-final to a separate date to accommodate the expected crowds. The Central Games Administration Committee (CGAC) will meet next Monday to consider arrangements for the fourth-round qualifiers and the quarter-finals.
Dublin are scheduled to play in the double bill on August 13th. Complicating matters is that the Ulster champions, Armagh or Tyrone, are also due to play on the same programme.
Given that the Ulster counties attracted 60,000 to their drawn provincial final last week, and that Dublin's last two matches have been sell-outs, there is concern that Croke Park would not be able to cater for the double crowds.
"We have discussed it," said CGAC chair Tony O'Keeffe, "but we have to get round four of the qualifiers out of the way first.
"Potentially you could have Dublin playing Tyrone and Armagh-Laois. That's the way the draw is structured. If that comes out, you'd have to look at it again.
"Had Dublin lost at the weekend the problem wouldn't even have been as bad, but now that they've won Leinster, the crowds will be really out."
The problem for O'Keeffe and his colleagues is that the Croke Park schedule for August is already very crowded, and the most obvious date for a separate fixture is Saturday, August 20th.
But were the teams to draw that day they would then be involved in three matches in three weeks, culminating in the All-Ireland semi-final on September 4th.
"We would be very much in favour of a single fixture," said Dublin chief executive John Costello.
"We'd only be getting an allocation of 20,000 if the double bill went ahead. Even from the GAA's point of view it would be throwing money away."