Extreme disappointment as sport suffers another loss

As sporting losses go, yesterday’s was up there with the worst of them.

As feared, the latest budget delivered disastrous news for the sector, with roughly 8%, or €3m, wiped off the already paltry pot leaving 100 or so sporting bodies to squabble over €40m or so next year.

Predictably, the Department of Sport attempted to dress up the figures by pointing to a new round of investment for sports capital projects and the development of a national indoor arena at the National Sports Campus.