Sport for Business has obtained a sport by sport breakdown of the money allocated to each of 46 individual sports as well as the amount dedicated to multi sport facilities.
Gaelic Games prove to be the biggest winner, in money which will be drawn down over the next two years, gaining capital grants totalling €17.2 million across 290 projects spread over Gaelic Football, Hurling, Handball, Camogie and Ladies Football.
This figure is up from the €14.9 million allocated across the same five areas in 2014, indicating a continued appetite across the countries most popular sporting organisation for projects that deliver according to the criteria of the scheme.
Soccer with funding of €4.9 million and Rugby with €2.9 million came in second and third of individual sports with 104 and 40 projects respectively being funded.
Soccer dipped from last year’s high of €6.2 million though does not include funding secured for three key regional projects as well last year. Rugby has risen from €2.2 million in the previous round.
Tennis which has traditionally ‘over performed’ in terms of funding through capital projects in comparison to funding through current investment via Sport Ireland has done so again with a capital sum of €1.35 million secured for 27 individual projects. This is down though on the 2014 figure of €2.03 million.
Sailing, Rowing, Athletics, Boxing and Swimming fill the next five places on the list, with sailing seeing the biggest rise of €120,000 more than was allocated in 2014.
Golf completes the Top 10 of sports to have achieved funding. It more than doubled the amount it received in 2014.
Gymnastics comes next. It’s figure of €387,701 over 13 different projects is down on last year but does bring the total funding for the sport to just short of €1 million over the last two rounds.
Others to have scored well this year include Canoeing, Cycling and Pitch and Putt, all of whom more than doubled the allocations.
The largest single area of expenditure is captured under the heading of Multi Sport and covers major projects within local authorities.
Dublin City Council was a winner here with a number of projects gaining funding despite the Capital not filling the amount that would have been due under the pro rata system of distribution by county introduced by Minister for Sport Michael Ring over the three rounds of Capital Sports Grants that have been brought in during the lifetime of this government.
Read our report and interview with Minister Ring from the announcement of the grants last month.
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