Early Christmas present for Kanturk Golf Club
KANTURK Golf Club got an early Christmas present last week when it was allocated €31,548 under the Sports Capital Programme. Set on mature parkland with wonderful views, Kanturk Golf Course has been described as ‘one of the finest old school golf courses in the South of Ireland’. With major drainage works completed in 2018, ensuring year round golf, this funding will help further improve facilities at the club. In all, more than 40 sporting clubs, community groups and schools across North and Mid-Cork shared in a more that €1.7million funding windfall under the latest round of the Sports Capital Programme (SCP). The allocated monies will be used to enhance existing facilities and fund new capital schemes that will, according to Sports Minister Shane Ross, allow as many people to participate in sport as possible. “Increasing participation in sport is the central aim of our National Sports Policy and to achieve our objectives we need to have appropriate sports facilities,” said Minister Ross. “I want to particularly thank all of the volunteers associated with these clubs for their tireless work and their commitment to improving their facilities to benefit all members,” he added. The latest round of funding under the initiative has been welcomed by local public representatives. Fine Gael’s Cllr John Paul O’Shea said the funding would “have an enormous impact on local sporting and community groups. “Sport is at the heart of every community in Ireland and this funding, which will new the development of new facilities and the purchase of new equipment, will serve to increase participation across a host of different sports,” he said.