Kilmaley demand grant snub reason

CLARE club Kilmaley have demanded an explanation from GAA President Christy Cooney as to why they failed to receive one of 10 €25,000 Strategic Infrastructure Funding Programme grants allocated at a recent Clare county board meeting from the monies the county received from the financial dividend of opening Croke Park to soccer and rugby since 2007.

Clare GAA chiefs initially appointed a three-man committee to select 10 Clare clubs, from the 24 who were eligible, to receive the grant but unable to make a decision they stepped aside.

Clare then appealed to Croke Park for assistance and Cooney selected Croke Park stadium manager Peter McKenna and Derry county board chairman Seamus McCloy to pick the 10 successful clubs. Despite meeting the criteria of having spent in excess of €100,000 and being on course to complete their work by December 31 this year, Kilmaley failed to receive a grant and have already written to the GAA President in an effort to discover why their application failed.