Eoin Sheahan
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3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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Another one is level of socioeconomic disadvantage in the area.
For me, when I look at those two things, I see a bit of a contradiction.
If you are trying to reward clubs in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas and also trying to award clubs that have a flow of cash that they can rely on, they kind of go head to head in this application process.
Even when it comes to the point that you made there about you don't necessarily need to own your facility in order to get funding, it does feel that those who are in areas with a good bedrock of sporting facilities
are in a much more advantageous position.
And you mentioned that the public index that's used for a lot of these areas.
I'm sure if you look at the likes of Dublin 1 and Dublin 8, they would score very highly on the public index, for example.
But it seems close to impossible for them to get the required funding to have a transformational impact
on those communities, for example.
And I bring them up kind of because we've done lots of work on the show with regards to the situation in Dublin 8.
And if we take D8 and D1, even just like looking through the last awarding of sports capital grants,
Dublin 1 got €81,976 in 2023.
Dublin 8 got €210,542 in that grant as well.
So that's a total of €292,000 out of €34 million spent in Dublin.
Those are the two areas that need this funding more than any other.
And yet they seem the areas most unlikely to receive that funding.
Something's not right there that this is the outcome when it comes to these sports capital grants.
And that's been something that Sporting Liberties have really been engaged with for the guts of 10 years, if not longer.
And what I found really interesting, I'd actually kind of lost the sort of the story there for a little while because we hadn't covered it in a couple of years.
I was just reading last year that there was this philanthropic collective that raised a million euro to deliver the first public green space in Dublin A. So that's 8,500 children in this area.
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