Kilgarvan GAA club in Kerry, which failed in its bid to secure church lands to develop sporting and community facilities, has made a further appeal to the Catholic Church locally to reconsider its decision to sell to the highest bidder.
A run-down presbytery and lands have been sold to a local man for €258,000 – almost €30,000 more than the asking price. The club had bid €205,000, having previously offered €50,000 for nine acres of the land, without the presbytery.
The deal, reached last week, may not yet have been fully signed off on, informed sources have said.
Kilgarvan GAA club yesterday made a direct appeal to the Bishop of Kerry, Dr Bill Murphy, the parish priest of Kilgarvan, Fr Donal O’Neill, and the church landowner involved, St Brendan’s Trust, “not to leave down the youth of the parish”.