Time to give Rebel county the stadium it deserves

SUNDAY’S Munster Football finals were probably the last big inter-county games to be played in Páirc Uí Chaoimh this year.

As usual, they were ran off smoothly and our Cork hosts were as always models of courtesy. Yet, one couldn’t help noticing in reading the ‘Angry Fans’ column of late on these pages that many punters aren’t too enamoured by the stadium anymore.

The ‘modern’ stadium opened in 1976 involving the replayed Munster final between Cork and Kerry, with the late great referee John Moloney allowing a Kerry goal scored by then super sup, Sean Walsh and disallowing an excellent punched goal by Declan Barron. !