O’Donoghue announces additional sports grants

TWENTY-ONE sports projects throughout the country have been given an unexpected €10.2 million boost by the Government.

Yesterday, John O’Donoghue, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, announced that he had made additional funding available under the 2004 Sports Capital Programme.

This funding, he stressed, was in addition to the €50.8m already ear-marked this year for 717 other sports capital projects.