Minister: Abbotstown will be completed

SPORTS Minister Martin Cullen, has reaffirmed his commitment to the completion of the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown.

While the Institute of Sport, FAI and National Aquatic Centre are now based on the campus, the goal of establishing the venue as a headquarters for all the country’s elite athletes has not yet become a reality with government funding for facilities such as an indoor athletic track and velodrome scaled back in light of the recession.

With some of the major construction projects in other sports having finished recently, or being close to finishing, Minister Cullen has promised that the Abbotstown complex will return as a priority.