Eoin Sheahan
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1,551 appearances
23 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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So if the project was 200k, your club would need 20% of that up front because the funding is not given as a lump sum and is instead given in tiers.
So it is designed that you spend 20% of the total fund, invoice that, and then repeat until the project is complete.
So that ties into this idea that you need a bit of cash, you need a good bit of cash in order to make something special happen on the sports capital grants.
We've been also speaking to Jobstown Boxing Club and their secretary has explained that they have applied for every grant that becomes available every year.
They've applied for the Sports Capital Grant.
and have been refused funding.
They have received smaller grants for equipment in the past.
They were unable to receive some grants due to issues like the centres in a residential area and that they rent the property from the council, which would be South Dublin County Council.
And the location for these reasons have been rejected.
However, they were unable to receive enough funding to move location
when going through the channels.
So what has happened here is they've attempted to go through the process.
They were left with no choice than to find a new channel to try and expand their community body, which is creating elite athletes.
So the grant system is clearly failing jobs on boxing club.
as much as we can working with local authorities and working with schools for example we want to get to a situation whereby we can foster that collaboration that gives them more stability I think as well there is a view within sports like boxing that they haven't been given a fair crack of the whip when it comes to sports capital funding like you look at the last round of funding
And you compare it to Gaelic Games, which got 96 million euro, the most by distance when it comes to a sport by sport categorisation.
So the GAA is 25 times bigger than boxing in terms of members, but it got 96 times the funding of GAA, Gaelic Games, in the last round of funding.
Something's not adding up there.
This government, and it's no different to previous governments, leans towards Gaelic games in an unreasonably favourite manner.
Like too much favouritism being shown in terms of how much funding has been pumped into it.
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