{"id":183922,"date":"2025-12-10T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:14:08","slug":"pat-horgan-confirms-cork-gaa-plans-for-centre-of-excellence-facility-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183922\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Horgan confirms Cork GAA plans for centre of excellence facility in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cork GAA chair Pat Horgan has confirmed that Cork County Board have plans in place to begin the development of a centre of excellence facility.<\/p>\n

At convention on Tuesday, Horgan stated that the county board have put together a combined fund of \u20ac1.7m for the centre of excellence. Horgan also confirmed that \u20ac500k of that funding will be put forth by Cork GAA.<\/p>\n

Rebel \u00d3g have also committed to supporting the development, while discussions with Munster GAA Council confirmed there will be \u20ac1m available for the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn finance, our financial pathway is now clearly established under our strategic plan,\u201d Horgan said on Tuesday night. \u201cAnd thankfully, we have made significant progress to secure financial stability while engaging diligently with stadium debt. We have come a long way this year and our financial report for the year is healthy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the absence of a dedicated multi-pitch centre for our daily games is an ongoing issue. Tonight, I am pleased to announce to the convention that the finance and the management committee are recommending the ring fencing of funds to be set aside in the new year for this project,\u201d he remarked. \u201cThe senior board here will allocate \u20ac500k and following discussions with Rebel \u00d3g, they will also commit to funding.<\/p>\n

\"PatPat Horgan, chairman Cork county board speaking at the Seand\u00fan centenary dinner at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also have had discussions with Munster Council and \u20ac1 million is available for a sports capital project, and together we will have an initial combined fund of \u20ac1.7 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now need to commit funding for a phased approach to continue sourcing, develop, build etc.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are currently setting up committees for this project, including a funding committee and a development committee.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite Cork GAA still owing close to \u20ac30m in debt as a result of the redevelopment of SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh, and a hold up in their ambition to sell the site at Kilbarry, the delivery of a multi-training facility will begin this year.<\/p>\n

Cork County Board had secured planning permission for housing development on the Kilbarry site, but following a Judicial Review application seeking to quash An Bord Plean\u00e1la\u2019s granting of planning permission, Cork GAA are locked in stalemate and are still yet to sell the land.<\/p>\n

\"CorkCork County GAA Board has welcomed the granting of planning permission by An Bord Plean\u00e1la for a strategic housing development on the northern fringes of Cork city at Kilbarry.<\/p>\n

Carraig na bhFear delegate Don Hegarty took to the floor on Tuesday to raise the question of Kilbarry once again, to which Cork GAA CEO Kevin O\u2019Donovan confirmed that it\u2019s \u201cstill on the desk of An Bord Plean\u00e1la,\u201d and that he hoped they would have confirmation on the situation for next month\u2019s board meeting.<\/p>\n

News on the Kilbarry site hinges on whether An Bord Plean\u00e1la will fight the Judicial Review.<\/p>\n

There was one motion put forward at convention, by the executive, an amendment to the ruling that a player seeking to transfer to the \u2018first club of his father\u2019 could only do so if the player would be transferring to a club in a lower grade than the one they currently play with, and that motion passed with an overwhelming majority in favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork GAA chair Pat Horgan has confirmed that Cork County Board have plans in place to begin the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-183922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}