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It would be great to have more opportunities to attend seminars, demo days and roadshows


” A warm welcome awaits “Advances in techniques and products are


continually evolving, thereby allowing for the general improvements in the standard of sports turf facilities, yet the cricket groundsman is generally undervalued; the job often falling to whoever is around at the time, or willing to take it on. Clubs investing in longer term arrangements with their groundsmen and assisting ongoing education would result in better facilities all round, which is what we are trying to achieve here. Higher quality playing surfaces will continue to raise the profile for the turfcare


professional.” Asked if he attends industry shows, seminars, demo days, road shows his reply was short. “No, but it would be great to have more opportunities to do so!” Due to flood damage, all buildings were


gutted and renovated in 2009. “Luckily, insurance covered most of the expenditure and we now, again, have excellent facilities,” confirms Matt. “Most building and maintenance work is carried out or overseen by myself.” “The introduction of an electronic score


board and the renovations of the existing scoreboard and scorers area has recently been completed, with the work being carried out by myself. In the near future, we hope to negotiate the acquisition of some ground adjacent to our club. This would be developed into, primarily, much needed training facilities, but this would also allow us to facilitate larger audiences.” “With cricket growing strongly in Ireland,


and especially with Cricket Ireland pushing towards a first class structure, my club aims to be the first choice venue for matches held outside of Dublin and the North. An excellent, international standard facility has been developed in Malahide just north of Dublin, proof that cricket in Ireland is moving in the right direction.”


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