Edenderry FC seeking to enhance facilities at club grounds

Edenderry Football Club has submitted a planning application to Offaly County Council to enhance playing facilities at its club grounds, Paddy Maloney Park.

The planning documents submitted outline pitch alterations "to include the relocation of the main pitch and existing flood lighting" and a "new artificial grass surface" has been proposed to replace the "existing main pitch location".

The development, proposed for the playing facility at Father Paul Murphy Street, Derrycorus, Edenderry, includes the installation of new perimeter fencing, a gravel path surround and ball stops to the new main pitch location.

The construction of a new second pitch and training pitch with surrounding gravel paths and all associated site works and landscaping are also included in the planning application submitted to the local authority.

The planning documents state the "application relates to works to "reorganise and make better use of the existing playing space available at the club" so the club can "best meet the increased demand for pitches by the ever increasing number of underage teams".

The application details that the "existing main pitch is being relocated to facilitate the addition of another full sized playing pitch at the club, while the "lighting to the existing main pitch location is also to be relocated to the new main pitch location".

Founded in 1926, the club, which fields teams at adult and underage level in the Leinster Senior League, the Midlands Schoolboys/girls League and the Kildare & District Football League, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

A decision on the submitted planning application is due to be made by Offaly County Council on or before June 24 2026.