Cork Racecourse in spotlight for Euro host bid

IRELAND’S bid for the 2005 European cross-country championships will be taken a stage further next week when an evaluation committee from the European Athletics Association will visit Cork.

Cork Racecourse at Mallow has been selected as the proposed venue should the AAI succeed with their bid to host the event but international secretary Liam Hennessy said yesterday there was still quite a way to go.

“I would be confident our package is as good and as exciting as any other put forward and we have a perfect venue in Cork Racecourse,” Hennessy said. “There is also a huge amount of goodwill and the local organisation is ready to put on a show on a par with anything we have seen elsewhere.