Minister for Sport Shane Ross at the Irish women’s hockey homecoming
Minister for Sport Shane Ross has announced Hockey Ireland will receive €500,000 of the €1.5m high performance funding he announced at the homecoming of the women’s hockey team.
To wit:
Hockey Ireland €500,000
Horse Sport Ireland €175,000
Olympic Council of Ireland €175,000
Paralympics Ireland €100,000
Gymnastics Ireland €75,000
Swim Ireland €75,000
Athletics Ireland €50,000
Irish Athletic Boxing Association €50,000
Confederation of Golf in Ireland €40,000
Cricket Ireland €40,000
Cycling Ireland €40,000
Irish Sailing Association €40,000
Rowing Ireland €40,000
Triathlon Ireland €30,000
Badminton Ireland €25,000
Irish Judo Association €25,000
Irish Taekwondo Association €20,000
Bog snorkelling€60
Competitive eating €0
FIGHT!
Hockey teams to receive a third of promised fund (RTÉ)
I wonder where the 175k for the Olympic Council will end up.
Some solicitors pocket in Brazil?
Is counselling a sport?
Ah here
Boxing collectively are more likely to achieve more Olympic Hardwear than the lot put together an’ they’re getting 1/300th of a divvy
That’s just sick
Even if the Ireland Hockey ladies get the Olympic Gold
It’s still only counted as 1 Gold in the table
Which is why they are the 4th highest funded sport anyway. This is just further funds. They already got 1.2 million, which doesn’t included the 175k worth of individual grants to 10 of the boxers themselves (between 12-20k tax free lump sum each)
This is additional funding Frilly.
“The governing body for the sport will receive €1,132,000 in total, with €432,000 being the core grant and a further €700,000 going to the High Performance Unit.”
http://www.irish-boxing.com/iaba-funding-holds/
With that thinking yeah, no other sports will climb at all.
Boxing in Ireland has collapsed since Billy Walsh departed for the USA. The Carruths are destroying it.
They shafted Walsh.
European Youth Championships – 1 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze.
Women’s European Championships – 1 gold and 1 bronze.
Men’s European Championships – 1 gold and 2 bronze.
I wouldn’t say collapsed exactly.
Ta lads
Swim Ireland €75,000.
That can buy a lot of sweets.
To post this on the same day there’s a post about Bart Nolan dying just further illustrates that you are beneath contempt.
You are a disgusting person. Utter filth.
Horse Sport Ireland. How is sitting on a horse while it runs and/or jumps around really a sport?
Jump on me back there and I’ll show ya.
Seriously though, I’ve seen that line so many times…
‘How is …..*insert sport I’m not interested in*….really a sport?
Yep and it’s always the types that would completely freak out if you inferred that ‘sure street art is only finger painting on walls, is it really art?’
But that is stupid as it isn’t finger painting is it?
Banging mindlessly on bits of plastic that triggers a computer to generate oscilations, not really music now is it?
Horses jump better when given antipsychotic drugs at the Olympics.
Choreographers have to be paid to teach them those sweet dressage dance moves.
It’s sort of vaguely irritating that Equestrian sports, Athletics and OCI get a large share of that money seeing as they’re already very handsomely funded. Nice to see gymnastics getting a piece of the pie given that our gold medal winner’s coach was let go from his job after winning at the commonwealth games.
Nice to see Badminton, Rowing and Cricket getting the rewards too.
Well dammit, me and the boys just got our competitive eating team up and running.
I’m glad that our hockey team did so well, but is it really 10 times more deserving than cyling – if the funding is based on recent successes, Sam Bennett won 2 stages in the Giro, and Dan Martin won a stage in the Tour.
Cycling Ireland gets funding from the Sports council of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Hockey Ireland doesn’t.
That sounds fair enough – thanks, Daisy