{"id":373840,"date":"2026-03-31T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373840\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:42:09","slug":"update-issued-on-multi-million-euro-limerick-gaa-centre-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373840\/","title":{"rendered":"Update issued on multi-million euro Limerick GAA Centre of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONSTRUCTION can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/231\/planning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">commence<\/a> on Limerick\u2019s GAA\u2019s new \u20ac20m centre of excellence in Crecora after the development cleared its final planning hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Council gave the development conditional planning permissions last month.<\/p>\n<p>Since no appeals have been lodged with An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la, formerly An Bord Plean\u00e1la, the development can proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The massive development is to be located on 95 acres of land at Jockeyhall, Crecora.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2048223\/jailed-limerick-man-smirked-on-morning-after-raping-sleeping-woman-on-medication-court-hears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jailed Limerick man &#8216;smirked&#8217; on morning after raping sleeping woman on medication, court hears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is located just off the N20\/M20 between Patrickswell and Adare.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ambitious proposals, there will be six floodlit natural grass pitches, two flood-lit all-weather synthetic pitches, and one sod replacement pitch.<\/p>\n<p>One indoor pitch is expected to be constructed, as well as two three-sided precast concrete ball walls with netting, fencing, goal posts, goal post netting and dug-outs to all playing pitches.<\/p>\n<p>An existing walled garden is to be repurposed to incorporate an all-weather synthetic training area.<\/p>\n<p>A new two-storey pavilion building will be constructed measuring around 4,285 square metres. This will feature changing rooms, a gym, first-aid and physiotherapy rooms, meeting rooms and offices.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals for the centre of excellence were first mooted back in March 2024, after the acquisition of the site was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONSTRUCTION can commence on Limerick\u2019s GAA\u2019s new \u20ac20m centre of excellence in Crecora after the development cleared its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[100355,61,60,1396,17406,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-373840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-crecora","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-limerick-gaa","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373840","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=373840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}