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Soccer clubs receive 25% of Tipp sport grants

Soccer clubs receive 25% of Tipp sport grants

There's renewed pressure on Minister Alan Kelly after figures were released of how sport grants were distributed in Tipperary.

The Irish Independent has revealed that a quarter of the county's 1.6 million euro in sports grants were given to soccer clubs, the highest allocation its received in a decade.

By comparion soccer clubs had not received more than 20% since 2006, and it was less than 7% in 2007.

It comes on the same week the FAI boss John Delaney was criticised for canvessing for the Tipp TD ahead of the general election.

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