Newly-crowned Cork senior hurling champions Sarsfields have been praised for allowing their pitch to flood to limit the damage caused by Storm Babet to the Glanmire area.

Just three days after ending a nine-year wait for Cork SHC honours, the club was in the news again yesterday after turning their pitch into a flood plain in an attempt to reduce the damage caused by the heavy rain in the local community.

"We will be forever proud of our senior team on Sunday and today Sars Hurling Club experienced heroism in the form of our pitch committee & volunteers," Sarsfields said in a statement.

"Although we wanted to ensure we could limit the damage to the clubhouse we made the decision to open the two large gates (behind the bar area and at the end of the pitch).

"As a result, our main pitch essentially became a flood plain in order to relieve the flooding to the immediate Riverstown area, Orchard Manor & surrounding businesses.

"We won a county, lost a pitch but hopefully saved a part of the Glanmire community."

 

Just saw this statement released by Sars Gaa - ye were fast on the ball on Sunday but much quicker today by the sounds of it 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/3bGUivJCTG

— Tomas Mulcahy (@tomas_mulcahy) October 18, 2023

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