Dara Smith-Naughton
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John Beeson has been told to come over to the VAR screen by Andrew Dallas.
And look at this again.
Trusty, is it a hand?
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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...
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 where you have the premises available.
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.
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 there hasn't been an inbuilt bias in any way in relation to extra funds going towards one sport over another.
When I get to our start of the week, David Clifford.
I just scored his 24th.
There you go.