Beer bottles buried in Cork GAA field in vandalism incident 'designed to cause damage' 

Gardaí are investigating the incident after goalpost netting was damaged and broke glass beer bottles were buried underneath the pitch surface.

Volunteers from the GAA club needed to dig around some of the bottles that were smashed into the ground to get them out of the playing field. Picture: Eoin Keane

Vandals have embedded glass beer bottles into a GAA field in Montenotte, Cork City in what has been described as an incident "designed to cause damage". 

Tank field in the northside of the city has been a regular site of littering and dog fouling but Eoin Keane from Brian Dillon's GAA club said the incident on Tuesday night is "different level stuff".