WIT project delayed ‘due to inadequate leadership’

The former head of a company tasked with delivering a multi-purpose sports complex to Waterford Institute of Technology has blamed “inadequate leadership” at the college for the delay in completing the project, which is now estimated to run millions of euro over budget.

The design team behind the Carriganore Sports Campus estimates that finishing phase three of the project, which began in January 2012, will cost €4.3m more than originally predicted.

The development promised a sports hall, a laboratory and classroom wing, and a two-storey fitness centre.