Over €8million in funding for county Clare under Community Sport Facilities Fund
Grants are part of €230m total funding for new and improved sports facilities and equipment across Ireland
Over €8 million in funding has been announced for 84 Clare sports groups under the Community Sport Facilities Fund.
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, and the Minister of State for Sport, Physical Education and the Gaeltacht, Thomas Byrne, announced 1,996 grants with a total value of €230m for new and improved sports facilities and equipment throughout the country under the fund, formerly the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme.
Ministers Martin and Byrne were joined this Wednesday morning, September 25, by Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, at Cambridge FC in Ringsend to announce the record funding.
A total of €8,333,978 has been earmarked for groups and sports organisations in county Clare.
The €230m allocation announced today follows May’s allocation of €26m for sports equipment which brings the total investment in community sport and recreation in 2024 to an unprecedented €256m.
This is a 50% increase on the funding allocated in early 2022 under the 2020 round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme.
Over 40 separate sports, as well as multi-sport facilities throughout the country, will benefit from the community sport grants announced today.
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