Accommodation for soccer and rugby won't be part of any deal to redevelop Pairc Ui Chaoimh

anon95599269 · June 23, 2010, 9:37am

Ultimately, this is going to be another public relations disaster for the GAA, and will push non-GAA and GAA fans alike away from Gaelic Games, just like the Tallaght Stadium fiasco, that nonsense in Kerry, Nemo Rangers etc. Who is right and who is wrong is the small picture - the bigger picture is hearts and minds, and such things as goodwill and community spirit are increasingly going out of the GAA bureacracies vocabulary as the organisation again and again looks petty and out of touch (which it is). Rule 42 should be long gone, and in any decent organisation it would have been.

I love Gaelic Hurling, but f**k me it is run by horrible little men. Nonsense like this and Rule 42 simply makes me ashamed and makes me doubt the worth in supporting the sports as a whole when they come attached to a pack of gombeens with miniscule minds. One has to try and seperate the sport from the bureaucrats, but it isn’t easy.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/no-to-soccer-and-rugby-in-the-pairc-2229495.html

tallaght stadium has been a massive success- football,bogball,rogbee & ammerican football have all been played there- concerts will be held there soon -

The_Runt · June 23, 2010, 9:39am

Tiesto?

anon95599269 · June 23, 2010, 9:39am

Your ignorance to Cork GAA grows. The Pairc has never been run like a business, this is unlikely to change bar a few concerts. Cork doesn’t need the money nor the constant revenue for it in that sense. It would be a white elephant if they were building a new building and were trying to make it a business. They are just redeveloping.

Its not really prone to flooding at all. Tipp have their training center beside Semple, don’t think its a major issue. Its actually a great thing to have it where it is. Cork already has regional centers in Mallow and Clonakilty, so if a team wants to give travelling players a break and go to them then they head to one of those facilities.

The lads are right, this is a non story. By the time it is done many of the old fogies will be gone. Secondly, as long as they build it big enough to hold hurling and football there is always, always the possibility of Soccer and Rugby being played there. So it is not like the Tallaght thing at all really.

tallaght has held a bigger variety of sport in 2 years than that hold in cork will ever have - the tax payer should not fund these bigots though

Sidney · June 23, 2010, 9:44am

Are there any architect’s drawings of this? I hear the plan is to knock the two stands and keep the terraces? Would it not just be simpler to knock the whole thing and build from scratch?

Bandage · June 23, 2010, 10:12am

I think Croke Park and some of the county boards around the country are living in their own little bubble and the ‘investigation’ into Nemo Rangers allowing the rugby footballers use of their facilities was petty in the extreme. There’s no understanding or acknowledgement that plenty of clubs are struggling financially with sponsors falling by the way side in the current climate, lower numbers buying weekly draw tickets and all that shite. I imagine clubs all around the country are renting out indoor arenas, all weather pitches etc to other sporting organisations and it’s actually using a bit of initiative that should be welcomed rather than them getting castigated for it.

caoimhaoin · June 23, 2010, 10:27am

100% correct. I have talked to Nemo people about this though, it was a witch hunt. From certain Senior members of the CB and National delegates i believe. People who would never have liked Nemo, or a certain excellent coach from Turners Cross.

I heard a rumour that one cheeky club wrote to the CB, told them the revenue they were pulling in from “outside” clubs and societies and told them if they ever even got a letter about it they would never offer their facilities again to the CB. Many winter finals, Cork training sessions etc etc would happen in these facilities. I think they detailed how the money was keeping their own club going. Don’t think they got any response.

Clubs in Cork are in a fairly strong position these days. There was a hint of everyone supporting Nemo on this but it didn’t happen. But the Club forum has scared the CB.

KIB_man · June 23, 2010, 3:45pm

Your ignorance to Cork GAA grows. The Pairc has never been run like a business, this is unlikely to change bar a few concerts. Cork doesn’t need the money nor the constant revenue for it in that sense. It would be a white elephant if they were building a new building and were trying to make it a business. They are just redeveloping.

Its not really prone to flooding at all. Tipp have their training center beside Semple, don’t think its a major issue. Its actually a great thing to have it where it is. Cork already has regional centers in Mallow and Clonakilty, so if a team wants to give travelling players a break and go to them then they head to one of those facilities.

The lads are right, this is a non story. By the time it is done many of the old fogies will be gone. Secondly, as long as they build it big enough to hold hurling and football there is always, always the possibility of Soccer and Rugby being played there. So it is not like the Tallaght thing at all really.

Clowns like you need to open your minds - a proper stadium in Cork has the potential to be a serious money spinner. Dont give me the Cork doesnt need the money bullshit. Every organisation could do with more. Think of the business it would generate for the city if utilised properly not small minded insular GAA bullshit.

Great that all stakeholders in Cork are given a backseat so travelling players are given a break :rolleyes:

caoimhaoin · June 23, 2010, 4:39pm

What are you on about opening our minds? This is a non story. Nothing whatsoevr has been decided, and won’t be for a while. I’d be all for a big conference center and a business run facility if it made sense, but i doubt Cork is big enough for it. Unless we get through some of the planning to get the deep docks sorted and the cargo ships can come in. The pricks up in Dublin kick up a stink every time it goes anywhere near planning.

You must realise that its a small area down there, serviced by a small amount of amenities. Now i’d like it to grow, but already the Marquee events more than put a penny in the pockets of the local businesses. A business center down the Pairc won’t do very much for the city, at least not in its present guise.

anon61956325 · June 12, 2017, 12:15pm

Won’t be ready for either final.

Arseboxin · June 12, 2017, 12:44pm

I flagged this yesterday mate

anon61956325 · June 12, 2017, 12:51pm

The locals are seething…

Arseboxin · June 12, 2017, 12:56pm

More seething they won Saturday night I’d say - meant they had to own up to this today

Bandage · June 12, 2017, 5:48pm

Tomás Mulcahy’s hair on the Six One News.

caoimhaoin · June 12, 2017, 6:00pm

Footballers are seething, absolutely seething.

CB ignored emails from managemw t looking for postpinments on lub games were they to win and on PIC being ready.

Absokutely anyone within a sniff of a builder down there knew it wouldn’t happen. Contractos not happy at all.

Stupid fucking cunts the Cork CB. He is not up to it but i do feel sorry for Peadar Healy.

myboyblue · February 23, 2019, 12:56pm

Way now open for PUC to be used for a Heineken Cup semi final

Julio_Geordio · February 23, 2019, 1:04pm

Can you imagine what a rugby game would do to the surface

myboyblue · February 23, 2019, 1:04pm

It’ll hardly make it any worse?

Corksfinedtboy · February 23, 2019, 1:05pm

230,000 ppl I’d say it’s needed

Julio_Geordio · February 23, 2019, 1:06pm

Be great for team Munster though. And a few quid off the €100m odd bill for the stadium

myboyblue · February 23, 2019, 1:07pm

Its a no brainer.