Cats secretary makes plea for all-weather pitches

THE GAA has to be more proactive in the provision of all-weather floodlit pitches, Kilkenny County Board Secretary, Ned Quinn will tell delegates in his first report to annual convention tomorrow evening.

Writing that there is an urgent need for at least one such pitch capable of staging club and school games all year round, he says they cannot afford “to stand idly by” and allow other sporting bodies attract their players through the provision of such facilities.

Formerly the county chairman and, under Nickey Brennan’s presidency chairman of the Hurling Development Committee, Quinn argues that the long periods of wet weather each year further compounds the need.