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THE Munster hurling final could be played in Nowlan Park next year if Waterford qualify for the decider again following plans to nominate the Kilkenny venue as the Déise’s ‘home’ ground for all senior championship matches.
Munster have been attempting to lock each of their hurling contenders into ‘home-and-away’ arrangements, now more commonplace in all provincial championships around the country.
However, Waterford’s own ground, Walsh Park, has a capacity if just 20,000 and County Board secretary, Timmy O’Keeffe, has stated that the only way they would enter into such an arrangement was with the proviso that Nowlan Park be the designated home venue for Davy Fitgerald’s men.
“We could, however, enter into a home-and-away arrangement with all the other counties if we were to nominate Nowlan Park in Kilkenny as our home venue and play our home Munster senior hurling championship games there,” said O’Keeffe.
“Nowlan Park has a capacity of approximately 30,000 and now, with the new motorway from Kilmeaden, it is located within a 30-minute drive of 70 per cent of the population of our county.”
