Reconciliation fund grant for soccer club

One of Northern Ireland’s best-known soccer clubs, Linfield, set in the heart of one of the most staunchly loyalist parts of Belfast, is to benefit from a Dublin government reconciliation fund grant.

Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen confirmed today that Linfield FC who will receive £10,000 (€16,000) are among 38 organisations to get grants totalling more than £850,000 (€13,810)