Galway GAA officials scrap plans for €8m training centre

GAA officials in Galway have abandoned an ambitious plan todevelop a training centre even though they look like losing over €2.5m on the deal.

Galway hurling board purchased over 100 acres of land near Athenry at the height of the Celtic Tiger period and had hoped to develop a state-of-the-art training complex worth about €8m.

Planning permission was granted in 2008 for the development at Mountain South close to the new M6 motorway which included six pitches, one of them an all-weather floodlit facility, dressing rooms, gymnasiums, meeting rooms, hurling walls and ancillaryfacilities. Galway hurling board paid €2.8m for 102 acres and have since paid €535,000 towards the project, the majority of which was on bank interest.