Limerick make formal offer for Markets Field
Limerick FC has announced that the club has lodged a formal offer for the city’s spiritual soccer home at the Markets Field.
Market’s Field is currently in the ownership of the Irish Greyhound Board, but the city’s greyhound focus will move to a purpose-built €18m facility in 2010.
And Limerick FC hope to complete a return to Markets Field in 2010 after quarter of a century away from the venue.
Speaking at a mayoral reception in Limerick City Hall last Friday, Limerick FC club chairman Pat O’Sullivan stressed that the stadium would be for the people of Limerick, open to all sports and codes, to all community groups and for the benefit of all Limerick people.
He added that the club would be unable to see the Market’s Field project to completion alone and he appealed to other bodies to help make it a reality.
O’Sullivan said: “I don’t want any of this for myself, that’s not what I’m about. I won’t be around forever and I want to help Limerick FC to a place where all the people, especially the young people from the so-called disadvantaged areas, can realise their potential through sport and education.”
Limerick FC is also taking over the running of the impressive Sean Choill training complex in Corbally, with O’Sullivan offering use of the facility to local clubs who may not have a place to train.
In further moves designed to strengthen the club’s links with the football community in the city, Limerick FC has made an open offer to the Limerick Schoolboy Council to avail of the facilities at Corbally, while the club has also sponsored playing kits and equipment for local clubs Star Rovers, Carew Park, Moyross United, Hyde Rangers and Hill Celtic.
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