Donegal go-ahead for Centre of Excellence loan

DONEGAL clubs have sanctioned the county board to borrow €1.6m to develop a new GAA Centre of Excellence.

Thu, 17 Sep, 2009 - 01:00

Paul Keane

Clubs were unanimous in their support for the borrowing of funds at a specially convened meeting on Tuesday night.

The Donegal board estimate that it’ll cost around €3.6m in total to develop state of the art new facilities on a site at Convoy. They’re hopeful of securing €2m from GAA central funds leaving an outstanding figure of €1.6m.

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