Michael O'Flynn, the chairman of the Liam Miller benefit match organising committee, has dismissed suggestions that a decision has been made which will allow the game to be played at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Evening Echo sports editor John McHale tweeted on Saturday evening that the game has been moved from Turner's Cross to the home of Cork GAA.
The Liam Miller fundraiser will now take place in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Well done to all for making it happen.
— John McHale (@echosportsed) July 21, 2018
"They're not even rumours," O'Flynn told Cork's 96FM.
I don't understand where they've come from because that is not the situation.
All that has happened is the GAA have come out yesterday afternoon with a suggestion of a meeting, which I have welcomed. I do indeed welcome the opportunity to sit down with them to discuss holding the event in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
That's it, it's only a meeting and those social media comments were completely and utterly wrong.
It's not helpful when people get ahead of themselves. Then we end up with a situation where people are wondering who is suggesting this; I'm certainly not and none of the organisers are.
O'Flynn thinks that the GAA has come under pressure to bend its own rules and he feels that many GAA people are sympathetic to his side's situation.
A family friend of the Millers, O'Flynn is hopeful that the meeting, which will take place at some point in the coming week, will bring a breakthrough.
Turner's Cross has a capacity of 7,000. Tickets for the game at Cork City's ground sold out on Friday morning. O'Flynn said that if the game was moved, any logistical issues could be overcome.
"It would be an extraordinary event, an extraordinary Cork day, an extraordinary sporting day in Cork. These are all issues that we can deal with if first of all it's possible.
"I'm not trying to preempt it because there are people who wouldn't thank me."
You can listen to O'Flynn speaking to Trevor Welch on The Score on Cork’s 96FM below.
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