Foxrock rugby club calls on Catholic Church to ‘stop’ sale of playing field to local GAA club

Foxrock rugby club calls on Catholic Church to ‘stop’ sale of playing field to local GAA club

Geraldines P Moran’s ladies team in Championship action recently

Ownership row

St Brigid’s Rugby Club claimed that ‘it appears as if they want to stamp out underage rugby in Foxrock/Cabinteely in order to grow their own sport’.

A FOXROCK RUGBY club has claimed the sale of a five-acre playing field to a local GAA club looks like an attempt to “stamp out underage rugby in Foxrock/Cabinteely in order to grow” Gaelic Games.

That’s despite the Geraldines P Moran GAA club stating that the deal involves an agreement that other sporting clubs will continue to have the same access to the playing fields.

Last week, Geraldines P Moran, known as “the Gers”, announced that it had reached an agreement with Foxrock Parish to purchase the Foxrock Parish Sports Fields, which is located next to the Dunnes Stores in Cornelscourt.

The site was purchased by the Foxrock Catholic Parish in 1959 and was made available, free of charge, to local sporting clubs.

The Gers said last week that its deal to buy the site “ensures continued access for the next 999 years for all other current users o

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