INEC owner: €50m State funding for Cork Event Centre is 'inappropriate and unfair'

The owner of the INEC in Kerry has branded the €50m state-funding deal for the Cork event centre as "inappropriate and unfair".

Patrick O’Donoghue, the chief executive officer of the Gleneagle Group in Killarney, said the goalposts have changed so much since the original €14m state-aid package for what will be a direct INEC rival was first advertised, it’s like asking the Kerry football team to play Cork in Cork "uphill and against the wind in both halves".