Slow progress on proposed Mayo GAA training facility
Mayo County Board has applied for Largescale Sports Infrastructure Funding but approval or otherwise will not be given until later in the year.
Croke Park has endorsed a plan by Mayo GAA to develop a training facility on lands adjoining MacHale Park in Castlebar but the project is dependent on the success of a grant application currently under consideration. That’s according to county board secretary Ronan Kirrane who responded to concerns expressed at last Wednesday’s monthly meeting that a proposed land dead between Mayo GAA and the Office of Public Works (OPW) is in doubt.
Seamus Tuohy outlined his ambition upon becoming Mayo GAA chairman in December 2022 that state-of-the-art training facilities would be developed at Mulvey Park, with the purchase of some adjoining land owned by the OPW.
“The OPW is not the easiest department to deal with. Seamus has been going on about this for the last two years [and has met] road block after road block but he has made a lot of progress on it,” Kirrane told delegates in the unavoidable absence of the chairman.
The secretary explained that Mayo County Board has applied for a LSIF grant (Largescale Sports Infrastructure Funding) but that approval or otherwise will not be given until later in the year.
“We are acutely aware that there is a huge deficit in facilities in this county and we are working towards that.
“[It is] based on that funding whether it’s going to happen or not. And we’re at the mercy of the political times that we’re in, when that’s going to be released,” said Kirrane.
