Funding blow for Erne board

THE Fermanagh County Board will have to do without one of its major revenue streams as long as John O’Neill is manager.

Fundraising group Club Eirne, run by supporters in Dublin and Belfast, confirmed in a letter that they have “very reluctantly decided to withdraw from supporting the county team financially for the immediate future.”

Club Eirne has raised £400,000 (€453,000) for the senior footballers over the past five years.