WEXFORD’S WEEK IN NUMBERS

The amount in Euro that Wexford is to receive in Local Sports Partnership funding in 2019, an increase of €8,400

on the previous year.

The allocation is part of a €31.8 million package of investment in national sports governing bodies, high performance programmes and athletes, and Local Sports Partnerships, announced by Sport

Ireland last week.

The key aims of Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs) are to increase participation in sport, and to ensure that local resources are used to best effect. Sports Active Wexford, based at county hall, is one of a network of 29 LSPs benefitting from at total of €7.29 million in 2019. Among the athletes granted funding is Leon Reid, who receives €20,000. He runs out of the Menapians club and has family connections with Enniscorthy. Phil Healy, who receives €12,000, is from Bandon in Cork but is trained by Wexford’s Shane McCormack from Menapians, the son of

Angela and John McCormack. The number of acts taking to the stage at Clayton Whites Hotel in the second semi-final of Wexford Has Talent this coming Saturday night, February 16.

The total amount of rainfall, in millimetres, recorded at Johnstown Castle in a very dry January. The Wexford figure was just 42 per cent of its long-term average for January of 103.4 mm.