Funding to be administered by Sport Ireland rather than the FAI. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho
Leinster House hasn’t been the happiest of venues for the Football Association of Ireland the last few years, their grillings by the Oireachtas Committee on Sport more often than not leaving members of their board ashen-faced come full-time.
The place did, though, give them a much-needed fillip on Tuesday with Minister for Sport Patrick O’Donovan’s announcement that they will receive “multi-annual” funding of €3 million towards League of Ireland academies.
It wasn’t quite the €4.45 million the FAI had requested in its pre-budget submission, but it wasn’t far off – and considering the strained relationship the association has had with its political masters, there are unlikely to
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