‘No issue with Páirc pitch’ after Sheeran concerts

Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium director Bob Ryan says “there’ll be no issue with the pitch” for tomorrow week’s Munster SHC opener between Cork and Clare at the venue.

A large area of the playing surface was relaid with sods soon after Ed Sheeran’s three concerts last weekend, primarily at the Town End, where the stage was situated.

It’s now a question of the new turf knotting in with other sods and the existing grass, but Ryan isn’t perturbed.