The 2013 Budget to be published today is expected to cut government spending to sport by something in the region of 5%.  This has been offset in large part though by the revival of the Capital Grants scheme for sport which was published last weekend and has so far seen €26 million allocated towards a variety of sporting clubs and organisations.
The largest single grouping within this was for facilities that cater for a number of different sports including council projects.
It is worthwhile though diving a little deeper into the figures to determine which sports have emerged as winners.  Today we start by looking at the projects allocated for Dublin.
With a population of 1.27 million, the capital has attracted total grants of €6,627,666 making an average per capita spend of €5.21. This is below the national average of €5.64 but urban areas can reach out to larger numbers so that is to be expected.
20 individual sports were given individual grants with ten of those breeching an aggregate of €25,000.

  1. GAA (15 projects)           € 1,014,495
  2. Soccer (13 projects)       €   928,636
  3. Tennis (8 projects)          €   591,599
  4. Rugby (4 projects)          €   465,091
  5. Cricket (3 projects)         €   266,668
  6. Boxing (10 projects)        €   158,435
  7. Sailing (4 projects)          €      82,536
  8. Gymnastics (4 projects)  €      57,990
  9. Rowing (2 projects)         €      53,328
  10. Athletics (1 project)         €      25,000

Three GAA, three soccer, two rugby and two tennis projects won grants in excess of €100,000.

Some will argue that many of the broader based community initiatives will also favour the larger team sports.  There is merit in that but it was down to each club and each sport to gather its resources and make application for the funds.
It will be interesting over the coming week to see whether the trends we see established in Dublin follow through to the rest of the country and to determine whether some sports were more co-ordinated than others in their approach to the scheme which in total is contributing to 615 projects.
Tomorrow we will look at the figures from Munster.
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