Grounds for concern

A number of stadia will host one Championship clash this summer — if they’re lucky. Brendan O’Brien looks at grounds that are under-employed and dragging county boards into the red

FOUR years ago, the whistle-stop tour that is the life of a GAA president took Nickey Brennan to the outskirts of Carlow town, where he officially opened a new gymnasium underneath the main stand in Dr Cullen Park.

It was a routine enough affair, peppered with handshakes and ham sandwiches, and the speech he delivered could have been cut and pasted into the hundreds of others holders of the same office have delivered before and since.