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THE Eigse Mrs Crotty Music Festi- val, Kilrush Choral Society and the Garda Youth Diversion Project under the Clare Youth Service were the three big beneficiaries of this year’s Kilrush arts and community grants.
The groups received €500, ©450 and €400 respectively.
Applications were invited in March for the Grant Scheme for Assistance to Community and Arts Related Projects 2008.
The grant was available to arts related projects and community projects from Kilrush.
Kilrush Town Council this year received a total of 26 applications seeking grant assistance, with 15 seeking assistance under the com- munity project scheme and 11 seek- ing assistance under the arts related project scheme.
This represents an increase of eight applications on the amount received in 2007 and double the amount re- ceived in 2006.
As was the case in 2007, the sum of €5,000 was made available in the 2008 Adopted Budget to fund both scheme.
“Our aim is to ensure that those who have been allocated funding in the
past are again being awarded funding this year and we have attempted to ensure that in most cases the amount of funding approved this year will not be reduced too significantly due to the increase in the amount of ap- plications received,’ said Siobhan Garvey, Marketing and Development Officer with the council.
In the assistance to the community section of the grants Clare Haven Services, Kilrush Ladies Football club, West Clare Early Years and Kilrush Rangers AFC all received €200.
Comoradh Sheandéin Naofa, West Clare Cancer Support Group, Kil-
rush Family Resource Centre, West Clare Kidney Support Group and the Kilrush Golf Club received €©150 while all the other groups in this cat- egory received €100 each. In the as- sistance to the arts category Kilrush Youth Project and the Kilrush Farm- ers’ Market received ©250 each.
Three groups received ©200, in- cluding Scoil Samhradh Inis Ca- thaigh, Kilrush Family Resource Centre and Kilrush Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann.
Kilrush Art Group and St Senan’s Primary School each received €150. The two remaining groups received Ja LOleR