Racing investment - Communities continue to be funds loser

PUNTERS will applaud yesterday’s announcement by Sports Minister John O’Donoghue that the Government is investing €200 million in the country’s racecourses.

From the Curragh to Clonmel, from Leopardstown to Listowel, the Capital Development Fund will create jobs and improve facilities for thousands of racegoers.

However, the move also brings into sharp focus the Coalition’s abject failure to invest in desperately needed community facilities up and down the country.