Delighted to confirm that @wesleycollege has been granted €150,000 as part of Sports Capital Programme. The funding will ensure the resurfacing of the hockey pitch and will benefit the school as well as @YMCAHC pic.twitter.com/HlPSK0mUoA
— Shane Ross (@Shane_RossTD) March 9, 2018
The pucK?
Fluffy Biscuits writes:
Lord Ross top of the class at defending class…Do they not already have great facilities in Wesley with fees at 6k a year??
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You just dont understand the hardship these kids go through. I mean how can they possibly have a good education without the €150,000 for the new pitch. Poor poor students.
And they got a huge amount of Lottery funding as well. It’s disgusting.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that this school is in his constituency or perhaps he’s former pupil.
He’s not a former pupil but they go to the same church in Ireland if you know what I mean?
Had to look into this before getting angry. The system can only be applied to by schools jointly with a sports organisation. In this instance the YMCA hockey club have applied which plays at Wesley. The SCP also has in its description of the scheme to prioritise disadvantaged areas which when you look at the granted applications is wide and varied. It’s easy to cherry pick a private school benefiting while ignoring all the others.
The Clonkeen crowd will be going ape
btw Fluff you’d be doing well to get a year in Wes for 6k
Yeah.
Also, since the state pays all the teachers salaries, as it does for all (almost all?) schools, fee paying or not, we are normally told that the fees go into supporting extra curricular things – like hockey pitches.
That’s weird. Probably a case of money attracting money. Easy to decide to grant 150k for a good, existing pitch. Much harder to make a case for a school that doesn’t even have a proper hall and would struggle to find a place to store a bag of balls.
They don’t need the school fees. The facilities are rented out to astro leagues every night of the week and the weekends. I wonder is there a few quid for St. Tiernans up the road to retarmac their soccer pitch?
Some set up Wesley have in fairness.
4 Rugby pitches
1 floodlit Rugby grid
1 Soccer pitch
2 full size Hockey astro-turf pitches
2 mini Hockey pitches
2 full size Hockey grit pitches
16 Tennis courts during the Summer season
2 Cricket pitches
2 outdoor Basketball courts
1 gymnasium
1 sports hall
Athletics track and field facilities
St. Tiernan’s did apply for funding for a new pitch but were turned down due to an “invalid application”
http://www.dttas.ie/sites/default/files/publications/corporate/english/list-invalid-applications-under-2017-sports-capital-programme/list-invalid-applications-publication.pdf
Poor old Ballinteer St Johns couldn’t even get a practice wall!
Sure nothing to see here… The SCG always gives huge amounts to big clubs, teams and schools! I was trying to get any funding for a soccer club with 700 players and we got nadda! Three years of trying and seeing all the big boys scooping up the big amounts is just so deflating!
This is informative. Would suggest SCP is funding about a third of the cost. YMCA providing two thirds. Wesley providing the existing grounds etc.
http://www.ymcahc.ie/news/ymca-hockey-club-and-wesley-college-agree-to-share-1568486.html
why Is it informative?
its not informative at all because its wrong,do you get overly excited by hockey or can’t add,duh !
“refurbish Wesley’s No 1 pitch with YMCA providing the balance of the estimated €270,000 cost.”
westbritism
No one complains about the tax breaks golf clubs get and the amount of land they take up. At least this is a school and is promoting fitness in children.
What is the fupping problem? I’d rather we had spent good money for school kids facilities rather than on voting machines or some other bullpoop
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/a-world-of-our-own-1.1196403
Principal Woods on how one gets to go to Wesley College.
“How do they decide? He smiles grimly. “What we absolutely don’t do is discriminate on the basis of ability, or an access exam,” he says. “We try to get the children of past pupils looked after. We try to get a reasonable number of boarders relative to day students. We try to balance boys and girls. It’s a Methodist school, so Methodists get priority, then other Protestant denominations – but siblings get the same priority as Protestants because we are categorical that families will be kept together. And if anybody applies as a boarder, we try to be sure they get in.”
I still don’t see what the problem is. Come again.
A playing pitch for young people.
Horrific. Can we get any lower?
Astro.ie also hold leagues on Wesley’s pitches so they must get some money from that too. Not to mention all the private after school things for kids and other adults tennis lessons etc.