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Seven Inishowen
clubs have secured €91,000 in funding under the CLAR
programme for rural areas of disadvantage.
Moville GAA receives €6,000; Culdaff Sports
Committee, €13,000; Greencastle Community
Development Company Ltd, €14,000; the Inishowen
Branch of Riding for the Disabled, Moville, €14,000;
Malin Head Community Association, €16,000; Malin
Head Community Sports Field, €14,000 and Tremone
Youth & Recreation Ltd, €14,000.
Fianna Fail candidate for Donegal North East,
Cecilia Keaveney welcomed the additional funding for
Inishowen sports groups under the CLAR Capital
Top-Up.
The package comes following the €951,000 allocation
last month to 14 Inishowen clubs under the Sports
Capital Lotto Programme.
"Having secured just shy of a million euro in April
for Inishowen sports groups through the Sports
Capital Funding of the Department of Arts, Sports &
Tourism, I'm delighted the CLAR programme
administered by Minister O Cuiv has delivered even
further funding to Inishowen groups," she said.
"I do feel that my role as Chairperson of the Joint
Oireachtas Committee
for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Community, Rural &
Gaeltacht Affairs does put me and the people I
represent at an advantage when it comes to funding
opportunities as I have developed a very close
working and productive relationship with both
ministers involved - John O' Donoghue and Eamon O
Cuiv.
"I know I have said this many times but the
extension of the CLAR programme which I secured from
Minister O Cuiv in April 2006 has been a tremendous
help in drawing extra funding into the peninsula,"
she said.
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