Cork City see their long-term future at Turner's Cross

Cork City chairman Declan Carey says that he sees Turners Cross remaining the club’s home well into the future, after it was confirmed that the potential sale of the ground to the company which owns Preston North End will be on the agenda when the Munster Football Association meets next month.

Peter Ridsdale, advisor to Preston’s billionaire owner Trevor Hemmings, raised the idea of the ground’s sale in a meeting with MFA officials two weeks ago when he was in Cork to finalise the deal which saw Preston inject €600,000 in Cork City through a combination of a buy-out of the transfer sell-on clauses for Sean Maguire and Alan Browne and payment for a first option on purchasing the club.