Waterford, Ireland / WLR
Jan 18, 2021 10:21 AM
Pictured at the new WLGFA site is player, Elsie May Shaw with sisters and Waterford Ladies senior county players Aoife and Emma Murray.
Waterford Ladies Gaelic Football Association (WLGFA) have become the first ladies county football team to fully own their own grounds outright in Ireland after years of fundraising for an 11 acre site beside the Waterford Greenway on the edge of Dungarvan at Ballinroad. Work on the field is expected to commence by the summer and will consist of a state-of-the-art pitch with pitch side spectator stand, changing rooms, coach and car park and a full six lane running track around the perimeter of the pitch. The facilities will be available for use to all county and club teams in the Waterford LGFA across all grades and will mean that county players will no longer have to travel to different GAA fields around the county and not knowing where their next training session will be on a weekly and even daily