Council vies to bowl Kingdom over with cricket

IRELAND may be excluded from playing in the next Cricket World Cup, but the ‘foreign’ game may yet vie with Gaelic football for the hearts of sports people in Kerry.

Efforts are being made to provide playing facilities for cricket in Killarney, home of football legends such as Dick Fitzgerald, Paul Russell and Colm Cooper. Killarney Town Council is to ask the National Parks and Wildlife Service to make a section of a field at Knockreer, in Killarney National Park, available for cricket.

Former Kerry footballer Michael Gleeson, a long-time councillor, made the proposal, which was unanimously agreed, at this week’s meeting. “A cricket field would benefit many people from cricket-playing nations who reside in our town and county,” he said.