Sports Minister defends NI Football Fund in heated Assembly debate: ‘Some applications were of poor quality’ | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk


Northern Ireland's Sports Minister Gordon Lyons defended the NI Football Fund in a heated Assembly debate, citing poor application quality from some Irish League clubs as a reason for rejections.
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Sports Minister defends NI Football Fund in heated Assembly debate: ‘Some applications were of poor quality’
Sports Minister Gordon Lyons
Yesterday at 22:43

Sports Minister Gordon Lyons has told the Assembly chamber that some Irish League clubs had made careless mistakes in their applications to the Northern Ireland Football Fund.

Last Thursday, the Department for Communities minister revealed the 20 clubs that will proceed to the second stage of the NI Football Fund process, with 17 clubs rejected.

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