Not quite true, an additional €1.5million is being allocated to high-performance teams, it's being spread around, not just women's hockey. It seems there isn't a breakdown available as to who is getting what. Oh, and they have been asking for it for many years, just never got it.No coverage.
Shane Ross is giving them €1.5 million they didn't ask for though.
Shane Ross is giving them €1.5 million they didn't ask for though.
There is no costed plan submitted and no targets agreed. We are halfway through an Olympic cycle. This isn't how you fund anything; it's just more populism from Ross.Not quite true, an additional €1.5million is being allocated to high-performance teams, it's being spread around, not just women's hockey. It seems there isn't a breakdown available as to who is getting what. Oh, and they have been asking for it for many years, just never go it.
Agreed, but the fact remains that your original statement is wrong, €1.5m is not being given to any hockey team. Whatever "extra" amount is allocated to hockey is being given to Hockey Ireland.There is no costed plan submitted and no targets agreed. We are halfway through an Olympic cycle. This isn't how you fund anything; it's just more populism from Ross.
Weellll, if you are being that semantic then I said "Shane Ross is giving them €1.5 million they didn't ask for though." so I could have been referring to sport in general or Hockey in general. I'm sure it is obvious that "them" doesn't mean the individual team members....Agreed, but the fact remains that your original statement is wrong, €1.5m is not being given to any hockey team. Whatever "extra" amount is allocated to hockey is being given to Hockey Ireland.
Weellll, if you are being that semantic then I said "Shane Ross is giving them €1.5 million they didn't ask for though." so I could have been referring to sport in general or Hockey in general. I'm sure it is obvious that "them" doesn't mean the individual team members....
Anyway, I'm sure you're great craic really.
When the Irish Football team gets a new sponsorship deal the vast majority of people understand that the deal is not with the individual members of the team. The Leinster rugby team recently got a new sponsorship deal with Adidas. I'm sure that most people understand that the deal is not in fact with the team but is with Leinster Rugby.The OP's query was about the Irish Women's Hockey team, not sport in general, or the monkeys in the zoo, or anything else you "could" have been referring to. You answered the OP's post with inaccurate information, I tried to clarify this, which it appears you didn't like.
I agree.No need to be unpleasant.
It is a strategy to help you get re elected and give you publicity.It really is quite astonishing by Shane Ross.
A Sports Strategy was announced less than a month ago. What's the point of having a strategy when it can all be upended by political opportunism, a.k.a. stroke politics ?
Yesterday I heard the audio of his announcement. There were audible gasps of delights by the women of the Irish Hockey team when his choice of words led them to believe that they were the recipients of this largesse, before he then, figuratively, snatched it away again.
Irish boxing was in the spotlight after the London Olympics 'til Billy Walsh left, Katie Taylor went pro and the Rio games took the shine off the rest of them. Post-Rio Irish rowing seemed to have taken that role, so long as the crews in West Cork continue to deliver and delight.
Now the focus switches to hockey.
Basically the strategy would seem to be picking winners, or picking them after they've won without your help.
Not really a strategy, is it ?
Granny grant for the grannies of Dundrum , clonskeagh, kilmacud and Stillorgan.It is a strategy to help you get re elected and give you publicity.