Munster GAA CEO Kieran Leddy has appealed for Gaelic games to be included in plans for municipal facilities.

Writing in his report to tomorrow’s Munster GAA Convention in Tralee, Leddy states: "Multisport facilities built by funding from the taxpayer need to include facilities for the playing of Gaelic games.

"In the past, our desire to build our own facilities was very strong, but in the modern world, this is not always practical.

"Land in urban areas is scarce now, so facilities need to take on a multi-sport model.

"So good has the GAA been at providing its own facilities, that local authorities have built municipal facilities that have excluded Gaelic games, simply because the playing areas provided in these municipal facilities is too small to cater for Gaelic games.

"A notion is being peddled that the Government has put far too much money into Gaelic games to the detriment of other sports.

"This is not true. Government funding over the years has been a fraction of what the GAA itself has invested in its own facilities."

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