Team costs ‘unsustainable’ without efforts of Cairde Chorcaí

Ted Owens, chair of new Cork GAA fundraising body Cairde Chorcaí, says the organisation will work with the Cork County Board to help with team costs that are becoming “unsustainable”.

Owens added that Cairde Chorcaí already has been recognised for tax clearance in America, where it intends to work with local GAA organisations, and if enough support can be garnered, it plans to work with camogie and ladies football also.

“The Cork teams are county board teams at the end of the day,” said Owens, who is chief executive of the Cork Education and Training Board. “It’s the job of the county board to provide resources for those teams, but the reality of the situation is that, as the board pointed out last year, they’re finding it difficult and it’s possibly getting to a point where it’s unsustainable.