€1m grant to make Kerry’s long-awaited centre of excellence a reality

One million euro in grant aid from the Munster Council will help kick-start Kerry GAA’s centre of excellence in 2013, the provincial council have confirmed.

Kerry officials can draw down €400,000 now and a further €600,000 at the end of 2013 to help with their ambitious €2.6m development in Currans, between Castleisland and Farranfore.

The board hope to ink a final agreement on the purchase of around 48 acres of land at Currans before the end of the month. They then plan to start work in the spring on the pitches and ancillary developments and hope to have final construction complete by March 2015.