Morgan right to point out folly of Cork’s Páirc life

BILLY MORGAN’S passion for Cork football has never clouded his common sense.

He is never one for posturing, which perhaps explains why he is one of the few that did not lose the run of themselves when the greatest Irish elephant ever to be housed in a sporting zoo was unveiled last July.

The final figure for the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh is likely to be north of €80million; quite the price for what is now one of four major stadiums in Munster.

Morgan (right), this week, pointed to the obvious folly of it all. ‘Cork still have no place to train,’ he said. ‘You look at most counties now, they have centres of excellence.

‘In my time, we were going cap in hand to clubs and looking for some place to train and it’s the same at the moment, which is crazy.’

Indeed it is, but it is not the end of the craziness.

It emerged this week that the board of directors of the company set up to run the stadium as a commercial entity have yet to meet five months after it was founded and a date for that inaugural meeting has yet to be scheduled.

Meanwhile, a rig of lights is currently being trialled in bid to get the grass to grow under the main stand in a bid to ensure this does not become the most expensive beach on the planet.

A stadium without grass is of no use to anyone. That is just what Billy was saying if anyone cared enough to listen.