November 10, 2024
Donegal LGFA slams County Board over share of McManus’ €1M

Foremost pic: The Donegal GAA Centre of Excellence, Convoy.

The Donegal Women Gaelic Soccer Affiliation (LGFA) has criticised the County Board’s distribution of the McManus household’s €1 million donation.

The LGFA is sad the cash was not divided equally between the golf equipment affiliated to the GAA, LGFA and Camogie Associations (CA).

As an alternative, the Donegal County Board has cut up the sum between the 41 golf equipment within the county with no distinction made about what number of affiliations they’ve (40 GAA, 37 LGFA, one CA). Every unit is receiving €24,390.

In a number of different counties, officers have disseminated the donation per affiliation. Within the case of a membership with GAA, LGFA and CA memberships, they might get three tranches whereas a membership with a males’s part solely would obtain one.

The McManus household final month despatched a €1million cheque to every of the county boards in Eire. The letters that accompanied them said the cash was to “be divided equally amongst the GAA, Camogie and Women Soccer golf equipment”.

Minutes of final Thursday’s month-to-month assembly of the Donegal LGFA board state there was “enormous dissatisfaction aired as no session was had by county GAA with LGFA on the distribution of those funds”.

On Friday, Donegal Every day despatched a question to the Donegal LGFA in search of an official touch upon the problems raised on the assembly the earlier evening. The LGFA didn’t reply, nevertheless, they did reply to the Cork-based Irish Examiner.

Chairperson Joanne McKinney advised the Examiner: “The primary difficulty is we didn’t have any session with or route from Croke Park or the GAA board. I suppose you could possibly say the choice was made with none enter from us, which is somewhat disappointing as a result of whenever you learn the letter despatched by JP McManus it was to be equal on all fronts.

“They divided it among the many 41 golf equipment so there are 37 golf equipment which have each males and women soccer and we’ve got two golf equipment that don’t have any women and one standalone hurling and standalone camogie. So, the funds have been divided amongst 41 versus virtually 80.

“I simply assume, within the spirit of the (McManus) letter, it’s simply not proper to distribute it like this. If each membership in Donegal was to divide it equally and take the route of the McManus household there can be no downside however are they going to try this?” 

We additionally requested the County Board for a remark.

In Cork, it was determined the monies be cut up evenly between the 401 soccer, hurling, women soccer and camogie membership sections with every receiving €2,494. Nevertheless, most counties didn’t demarcate between the boys’s sports activities. The entire 121 golf equipment in Kerry (74 GAA, 39 LGFA and eight CA) have been in receipt of €8,265 and every of the 146 in Tipperary (71 GAA, 36 LGFA and 38 CA) have been issued €6,849.31. In Louth, the breakdown was €12,658 per code.

Working the identical mechanism, Cavan ( €12,658), Derry (€11,111), Fermanagh (€24,390) and Tyrone (€9,259) additionally divided their €1m. Had Donegal labored off the identical foundation, every of their female and male code golf equipment would obtain round €12,800.

Learn the complete report on www.irishexaminer.com

 

Donegal LGFA slams County Board over share of McManus’ €1M was final modified: January thirtieth, 2024 by Employees Author

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