Sport equipment

€300,000 funding boost for Clare sports clubs

FIVE Clare sports clubs will share more than €300,000 in Government funding to improve playing and training facilities, Clare Fine Gael General Election candidate Leonora Carey has confirmed. The biggest allocation of €189,554 went to Parkville Soccer Club in Meelick for the provision of an astro turf playing pitch. The other recipients were Newmarket-on-Fergus Handball…

The Clare GAA Centre of Excellence at Caherlohan near Tulla.

€3.2 million funding to upgrade Clare GAA Centre of Excellence

CLARE Fine Gael General Election candidate Leonora Carey has welcomed the allocation of €3.2 million from the Government’s Large-Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) to enable the integration of GAA, camogie and ladies football activities at the Clare GAA Centre of Excellence at Caherlohan near Tulla. “With the total cost amounting to €4.9 million, Clare GAA…

Astro turf playing pitch

Five Clare clubs benefit from sports fund appeals process

 CLARE Fine Gael Local election candidate Leonora Carey has confirmed that five Clare clubs will benefit from the Community Sports Facilities Fund appeals process. More than €8 million was allocated to 84 Clare sports groups under the Community Sport Facilities Fund in September and, following successful appeals, an additional €240,197 was awarded to five clubs…