GAA club plea as Church sells land to highest bidder

A controversial site which has divided a community has been sold to the highest bidder by the Diocese of Kerry, against the wishes of the local GAA club.

The announcement was made at evening Mass in Kilgarvan on Saturday by Fr Donal O’Neill, who acknowledged that “some people would be disappointed” by the decision.

The Church had previously been warned that the decision to sell the local presbytery and adjoining 12 acres of land to anyone other that the GAA could recreate scenes from John B Keane’s drama The Field.