Killarney

Spa GAA Club has raised concerns on the proposed new road that will link the eastern side of Killarney to the Tralee side of Farranfore.
The Killarney club will be impacted in some way no matter which one of the four proposed routes are selected.
In the worst-case scenario for the club, its catchment area will be divided in two, while other scenarios will involve the club potentially giving up some of its playing pitches and boundary walls.
The public consultation period ended last Friday and club officials made detailed observations on all four routes.
Club chair Michael Cronin gave the John Mitchell’s GAA Club in Tralee as an example of how a club could be potentially cut off as a result of a new road.
The Tralee club’s grounds are highly visible from the new portion of the N22 as drivers approach Tralee but access is via the Castlemaine Road.
“The last thing we want is people driving around wondering how to get in to the pitch,” Mr Cronin told the Killarney Advertiser. “We will be fighting for as many access roads as we can get. We have a lot of members, over five hundred, from both town and country and the road could divide the community.
The club are in the middle of an ambitious expansion programme. A new walkway was constructed around the inner perimeter of grounds last year and it has been recently granted planning permission for new dressing rooms.
Mr Cronin added that the club would wait until the final route is selected before deciding their next step.

New road “could divide the community”

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