{"id":471989,"date":"2026-05-28T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471989\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:58:07","slug":"funding-worth-e9-2m-approved-for-shelbourne-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471989\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding worth \u20ac9.2m approved for Shelbourne FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u20ac9.2 million in funding has been approved for Shelbourne FC and the Tolka Park Community Hub project.<\/p>\n<p>The approval came from the Department of Justice under the Immigrant Investor Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme, which closed to new applications in 2023, allowed wealthy individuals to seek Irish residency through donations to certain projects.<\/p>\n<p>Independent TD Barry Heneghan described the announcement as a major moment for football on the northside of Dublin and he said the project would deliver long-term benefits for the entire community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is massive news for Shelbourne FC and for the wider northside community,&#8221; Mr Heneghan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tolka Park Community Hub will benefit not just the club itself, but the wider area through community access, disability inclusion programmes and opportunities for young people and families,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Heneghan particularly welcomed the focus on disability inclusion and community engagement within the project.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the D\u00e1il recently about the immigrant investor programme, Minister for Justice Jim O&#8217;Callaghan said his department has no role in relation to the administration of such investments and does not hold any funds at any stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a private matter between a potential investor(s) and a potential project concerned,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u20ac9.2 million in funding has been approved for Shelbourne FC and the Tolka Park Community Hub project. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-471989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}