Grant delay a cashflow setback for women's clubs

SET BACK:Women’s Premier League clubs have not given up hope of state funding after a €50,000 per club grant proposal hit an early setback. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Women’s Premier League clubs have not given up hope of state funding after a €50,000 per club grant proposal hit an early setback.

Clubs, able to operate on a semi-professional basis for the first time this year, worked off the understanding that the funding was a formality between the FAI and Sport Ireland and would be paid before fixtures break ahead of the upcoming World Cup.