Munster ready for new facility

Munster Rugby will end their tradition of training in dual venues in Cork and Limerick when a new state-of-the-art facility is opened next July.

Work on the €9.5m facility at the University of Limerick is under way and is due to be completed ahead of the 2016-2017 season. It will include weight rooms, medical and physiotherapy treatment rooms, offices, audio visual suites, meeting rooms, and a 50-seater lecture theatre.

UL president Don Barry said: “I am delighted that this new facility will further cement the ongoing and successful relationship between Munster Rugby and the University of Limerick. A single training facility will be beneficial to Munster Rugby and the new facilities will help raise the university’s profile.”