{"id":65854,"date":"2025-10-08T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:25:09","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-small-figure-should-not-detract-from-big-picture-as-loi-academies-seal-state-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65854\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Small figure should not detract from big picture as LOI academies seal State support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ministers said a better academies structure can produced more players like Mason Melia. Photo by Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3253723.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)\">Ministers said a better academies structure can produced more players like Mason Melia. Photo by Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">There are two ways of looking at the landmark announcement of Government funding for League of Ireland academies, and those viewpoints were represented in conversations reacting to the Budget\u2019s initial \u20ac3m commitment for 2026.<\/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)\">On the one hand, there\u2019s the understandable opinion that \u20ac3m is hardly a game-changing figure and the creation of a couple of new positions per club is not exactly going to drive a revolution. Issues with facilities and infrastructure will remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ministers said a better academies structure can produced more players like Mason Melia. Photo by Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3264,1113,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-65854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65854","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=65854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}