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CLARE GAA clubs are set to avail of over €300,000 under Munster Council club development grants, it has been announced by the provin- cial ruling body.
The announcement of the alloca- tion for the council’s 2008 budget shows that Clare clubs lodged a total of 47 applications to the provincial council, just one short of Kerry who lodged the most applications.
However, Cork clubs received the highest grants with a total of €574,944 allocated.
The council’s budget in this area arises from 40% of it’s gate receipts throughout 2008 and the council allocates grants up to an approved maximum in various categories.
These include field purchase, dress- ing rooms, floodlighting, pitch drain- age, stands, embankments, dug-outs, First Aid accommodation, Medical Room, car park facilities, score- board, netting, boundary and playing pitch fencing, purchase of mowers, hurling walls and pitch sanding.
Under the scheme, school grounds also benefit while in addition to the club funding, €484,570 was allocat- ed to ongoing major county ground developments.
“Comhairle na Mumhan acknowl- edges this wonderful work that is being undertaken by clubs with the approval of 40% of gate receipts for club development while a further 15% of the gross gate receipts is returned in ground rents to the grounds that hosted games this year,” a spokes- person for the council told The Clare People.
“This means that overall Com- hairle na Mumhan gives back 55% of its total gate revenue for develop- ment work.”
According to the latest figures, in the last five years the council has committed almost €9 million to De- velopment Grants in the province. Central Council has committed €2.6 million to clubs in the Munster in ad- dition to this, in the same period.