Limerick announce Bruff campus development

Limerick FC have taken yet another progressive step in their quest to establish themselves as one of the nation's leading football clubs with the announcement that the club have purchased the site of the former FCJ convent in Bruff as a training, business and community base for the club.

The Shannonsiders' purchase of the former boarding school site comes just a few short months after announcing the lodging of a planning application for development that would allow them to return of their spiritual home, Markets Field.

The new facility, which shall be named the ‘Kirby O'Sullivan Sports, Social and Business Park’, will serve as both an administrative and training base for the club. In addition to the club offices, the new facility will contain state-of-the art training facilities that will include both small and full-sized grass pitches along with an Astro-Turf pitch that will be accompanied by a stand for spectators.

Speaking at the announcement of this exciting new development, Blues Chairman Pat O'Sullivan insisted that the benefits of these new facilities will extend beyond the reach of Limerick FC to the region's wider sporting community.

“For the club, it will house our offices, it will have a museum, there will be facilities for underage soccer who have no base and who do enormous work in the community. The first team that will go into it is the local camogie team who have used it for years; we’ll allow them back into it again. It will be an integral part of the community and we appreciate the willingness of the community of Bruff to support us in this. They love the concept.”

As part of the club's efforts to further integrate itself into the social fabric of the Mid-West region, Limerick will also use the facility to help stimulate the growth of local business and community groups with agreements already in place that will see such groups use the site as a base from which to operate.

Pat O'Sullivan said: “We’re much more than just a football team that turns up to play; we are passionate about Limerick and the Mid-West region. We want to be central in the everyday life of Limerick people, sharing their love of sport, their community pride and their values.”