Lane: We don’t have €2m Croker cash ‘sitting in the bank’

THE CORK County Board insisted yesterday that it did not have €2 million earmarked for a GAA centre of excellence in the city “sitting in the bank”, contrary to suggestions made at the Cork GAA clubs forum report launch on Sunday night.

Cork County Board PRO Ger Lane said that while €2 million was the amount that Croke Park would be allocating to Cork from the money generated by rugby and soccer internationals in GAA headquarters, that money could not be drawn down until plans for the centre of excellence were at a more advanced stage.

“That’s available to the county board when the development gets underway,” said Lane. “That’s the commitment we’ve received from Croke Park – the money will be available at that stage, but we certainly don’t have that money sitting in the bank.