Sport Ireland launches project to bring sport to disadvantaged communities

Sport Ireland is launching a project aimed at finding out how best to provide sport and physical activity in disadvantaged communities. The tender issued by the body which oversees and partly funds sport in Ireland wants to increase the number of adults and children participating in sport and reduction in sedentary lifestyles as a result.

"The primary objective of this project is to test the efficacy of interventions to increase participation in sport among individuals in disadvantaged communities using ideas from behavioural science research, and the potential for such interventions to be scaled up for general application across the wider population," it said.