{"id":65442,"date":"2025-10-07T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65442\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:07:09","slug":"a-vote-of-confidence-in-the-future-of-football-in-ireland-government-ministers-explain-reasons-for-loi-academy-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65442\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A vote of confidence in the future of football in Ireland\u2019 \u2013 Government ministers explain reasons for LOI academy funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sports Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan (left) has expressed his dissatisfaction. Right, FAI chief executive David Courell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4c6a0c07-1dd9-405f-a936-938794c50d53.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sports Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan (left) has expressed his dissatisfaction. Right, FAI chief executive David Courell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Charlie McConalogue says that the allocation of \u20ac3m in funding to League of Ireland academies reflects a Government \u2018vote of confidence\u2019 in the future of football in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But his Government colleague Patrick O\u2019Donovan, the senior minister in the area of Culture, Communications and Sport, has warned that the FAI will be on a \u2018collision course\u2019 with him if they repeat any of their behaviour around last month\u2019s Oireachtas Committee appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan (left) has expressed his dissatisfaction. Right, FAI chief executive David Courell Minister of State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-65442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65442","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=65442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}