Club fears motorway will destroy facilities

AROUND €16 million has been spent developing one of the finest GAA facilities in the country, but those behind that project are worried they could end up playing beach volleyball instead of hurling if engineering works on the proposed €800 million Cork-Limerick motorway are not undertaken properly.

Members of Mallow GAA Club met yesterday with executives from the National Roads Authority (NRA) to discuss their concerns about the planned 80km motorway.

Club chairman Bartley Galvin said they were fortunate to have a major well at the facility that provides the club with all the water it requires, be it in the club bar, changing rooms for showers or for watering five sand-based pitches.