IN October 2017,

at the opening of the newly refurbished Pairc Ui Chaoimh, the then GAA President Aogan O’fearghail said: ‘It’s a world-class stadium and people deserve that’.

It is quite extraordinary to spend over €100 million and be left with this excuse for a pitch.

Just imagine that this can happen in this day and age – a surface so sub-standard, with so many underfoot problems can be given the green light.

It’s beyond staggering that nobody copped it until it was too late.