Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty wants a root and branch reform of how sports grants are allocated and says clubs should not be excluded over “the need to look after the disadvantaged”.

It is the final call for student grant applications.

More than 110,000 carers will receive a grant of €1,700 today to help in providing full-time care.

GPA members are still waiting on their 2017 State grants to be paid and they’re getting fed up, writes Séamus Hickey. 

Athlone Town soccer club can now draw down a €200,000 government grant for a proposed new astro-turf training pitch, following an agreement in the High Court.

Schools might be just out for summer but already the Government have hiked up the back to school grant by up to €50.

Students at University College Cork (UCC) could be paying an extra €50 a year to fund improved sports and recreation facilities if a vote that concludes today is passed.

The new first-time buyers grant has been criticised as a “mansion grant” which will be available to those earning four times the average industrial wage.

More than 170 landowners are in line to earn about €600 a year in a maintenance scheme announced by Kerry County Council for the proposed South Kerry Greenway.

A Longford medical company is to part-benefit from an EU grant that will help bring a unique wound-healing product to market.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has played down the value of first-time buyer grants to help urban couples get homes after a warning from international experts this could cause an even further spike in property prices.

People who are refusing to pay their Irish Water bills will be able to apply for the €100 conservation grant from today — but will have to hand over their PPS number to do so.

Students should get grants quicker than previous years this autumn, and should also have an extra payment before Christmas.

It has emerged this evening that households claiming the water conservation grant will have to go through a second registration process later this year.

The government allocation of grant-aid towards the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh is not coming with any strings attached, according to Cork County Board chairman Bob Ryan pictured.

A married woman has been told her college grant application has to be assessed on the income of her parents who she no longer lives with.