Charlie McConalogue
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385 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 May
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So, listen, it's something I'm very conscious of as Minister of State for Sport, that there are challenges for some clubs, particularly the likes of boxing clubs, in terms of securing premises.
Yeah, and listen, the reality there is that for most boxing clubs, they are renting premises or leasing premises.
So they don't tend to build new premises.
I know in my local town in Donegal, for example, Cairndona Boxing Club did build a premises there a number of years ago and got community sports facilities funding towards that.
But that would be the exception.
But what we're so what we what we want to encourage there is that where they develop a relationship and have a reasonable lease with the premises that they can invest in the facility.
But also, unlike the boxing club I just mentioned there that does wonderful work, the Korean boxing club, they hadn't applied before and they can apply for equipment, for equipment.
where you have the premises a lot of your investment then can be in equipment instead and we want to get the message out there to all of those boxing clubs that you can apply for equipment and you can be supported through it and you should do that It does feel and look I'm sure the majority of our listeners are GEA fans or have some connection to the GEA in some capacity it does feel that
Well, listen, first of all, Owen, I can assure you it's not the case that we're seeking to prefer any one sport over another.
And that hasn't been the case in recent community sports facilities fund rounds either.
The reality has been that GA clubs...
have been traditionally very good and very proactive in terms of making applications.
And of course, as an organisation and as clubs, they do wonderful, wonderful work within communities.
But what we want to, but there hasn't been an inbuilt bias in any way in relation to extra funds going towards one sport over another.
As I said in relation to your point earlier about, you know, more built up areas, not maybe getting the same level of funding.
It has been down to the level of applications that we've received.
And what we want and what I wanted to ensure we're doing this time around is trying to look at the sports particularly, which mightn't have made the applications in the past.
Also working with their national governing bodies, try to encourage them to make sure that their applications are in.
Through things like doing this interview with you here this evening, getting that message out that we are open for applications for them and that we welcome them.
And they will be very well received when they make that application.
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