Shane Curran has criticised Roscommon county board's decision to splash out on an official team bus.

The bus, which was sourced locally through Strokestown-based Westward Scania, is for use by all Roscommon's county teams as well as schools and clubs.

The ground-breaking venture was made possible after the Roscommon supporters' group, Club Rossie, enticed six travel partners to sponsor the vehicle: BNP Paribas Real Estate, Ballymore Group, Dermot Hughes Toyota, Westward Scania Ireland, Seamus Carthy REA Auctioneers and O'Neill's sportswear.

But former county goalkeeper Curran believes the money could have been spent better elsewhere.

"I'm afraid I have to stand firmly against the decision of the Roscommon county board to get involved in such a lavish and wholly unnecessary investment. It's an absolutely scurrilous waste of investors' money," he wrote in the Westmeath Independent.

"Here we are in Roscommon with no county training pitch, only one full-time coach in the county, and with young players crying out for employment - and the county board, along with a number of sponsors or investors, decide, in their wisdom, to pump a figure believed to be in the region of €250,000 into buying a bus!

"The decision is completely out of kilter with the needs of Roscommon GAA and its young players. I am astonished the county board can get away with this lavish and most wasteful investment, especially at this time of great austerity around the country." Tweet

Most Read Stories