Sports Ministers Catherine Martin and Thomas Byrne will hold a press conference at Dalymount Park at 11 am to announce a pre-election handout totalling €173m across all codes as part of the Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund. Of the 35 projects to benefit, two of them are in County Galway, with Kinvara Hockey Club receiving €1.3 million to develop a regional pitch and adjoining multi-use games area and St Jarlath's College Tuam receiving €2 million to develop a full-size 4G floodlit pitch and redevelopment of their existing grass pitches. The big winners in the west were Slifgo Rovers, who received €16.4 million to transform The Showgrounds into a 'modern multi-sport stadium with community accessible indoor facilities.' Nationally, Bohemians and Dublin City Council have received €24.7 million for the long-overdue redevelopment of Dalymount Park, originally a Euro 2020 legacy project. Bohs have yet to confirm where they will play as a temporary base when work gets underway on demolishing the Phibsborough venue and rebuilding an 8,000-capacity UEFA Category 3 stadium, most likely in 2026. The full list of projects in the Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund are:
| 1 | Cavan Regional Sports Campus | Phase 1 of a 2-phase development. Will provide covered sports arena with playing pitch, spectator seating, and other ancillary accommodation. Sports centre building with changing facilities, multi-purpose rooms, reception, and ancillary accommodation. GAA fields (4), synthetic hockey/multi-sport pitch, cricket practice area/ catch-nets. All with lighting. | Multi / GAA | Cavan | 19,000,000 |
| 2 | Dalymount Park Redevelopment | The redevelopment of Dalymount Park will provide an entirely new UEFA Category 3 stadium and football pitch. The existing stadium will be demolished to create a brand new four-sided enclosed stadium and a re-orientated pitch on the preferred north/south axis. | Soccer | Dublin | 24,700,000 |
| 3 | Sligo Rovers FC- Showgrounds | Significant upgrade of existing arena into a modern multi-sport stadium with community-accessible indoor facilities. | Soccer | Sligo | 16,400,000 |
| 4 | Spawell Cluster Facility | Centre Of Excellence facility for all of Dublin GAA (Phase 1): 3 full-sized pitches, 1 synthetic pitch (all floodlit); indoor training centre, skills wall, gym, sensory spaces and changing rooms. | GAA | Dublin | 7,000,000 |
| 5 | Edenderry Pool | Competition-standard Swimming Pool facility and Fitness Centre. FINA Standard 6-lane, 25m short course swimming pool, children's pool, and a Hydrotherapy Recovery area with hot and cold baths. Sauna and steam room, strength & conditioning gym | Swimming | Offaly | 8,900,000 |
| 6 | St. Oliver’s ETB | General purpose Sports Hall, equipped to host various sporting events and activities. | Multi / Basketball | Louth | 7,200,000 |
| 7 | Sallins Park, Naas | Grass GAA pitch, Multi-use grass pitch, 2 soccer grass pitches, all-weather multi-use pitch, MUGA | Multi | Kildare | 3,000,000 |
| 8 | Water Activity Centre | Water Hub Activity Centre with storage & amenities for rowing and dragon boats, youth service, changing facilities, boat equipment units, training & fitness room. | Watersports | Carlow | 4,200,000 |
| 9 | East Coast Hub, Gorey | Hockey pitch, cricket pitch, cycling track & indoor multi-use sports facility. (Phase 1) | Multi | Wexford | 4,900,000 |
| 10 | Morton Stadium | Indoor athletic training facility, with full 8 lane 100-metre track, high-jump area, HP gym, medical and physiotherapy treatment spaces, changing village, public toilets, and storage | Athletics | Dublin | 7,000,000 |
| 11 | Seafield Community Facility | 8 lane athletics track with floodlights, long jump, high jump and 3G soccer pitch in the infield. | Athletics /
Soccer |
Meath | 2,300,000 |
| 12 | Shannonside Centre | 8 lane 400m athletics track with an internal grass pitch, full-size multi-sport 4G pitch with floodlights and dressing rooms | Multi / Athletics | Leitrim | 3,300,000 |
| 13 | Kinvara Hockey Club | To develop a regional FIH certified (national standard) hockey/multisport pitch with adjoining 2G MUGA, fencing, floodlighting, MUGA, Tennis & Bocce Courts. | Hockey | Galway | 1,300,000 |
| 14 | Clare GAA, Centre of Excellence (Caherlohan) | Completion of centre of excellence facilities will facilitate integration of GAA, LGFA and Camogie. | GAA | Clare | 3,200,000 |
| 15 | Killarney RFC | Further development of clubhouse: changing rooms, individual shower units referees changing room/Shower Unit, Accessible toilet with room for shower, First Aid room, Gym and Equipment room | Rugby | Kerry | 750,000 |
| 16 | Tallaght Stadium | Upgrading of floodlights at Tallaght Stadium to LED standard. | Soccer | Dublin | 650,000 |
| 17 | Wexford GAA, Centre of Excellence (Ferns) | Phase 3 development of Centre of Excellence to accelerate integration of GAA, LGFA and Camogie in COE. Will provide extra dressing rooms, expanded gym, and other indoor facilities plus new 4G pitch. | GAA | Wexford | 3,500,000 |
| 18 | Golf Ireland HP Centre | Development of High Performance facilities for female and male national squads | Golf | Kildare | 1,400,000 |
| 19 | Hyde Park, Dalkey | Indoor sports hall, ball wall, gym, fitness studio, changing rooms, office, physio room, storage, lobby, toilets. Cuala GAA and Dalkey AFC are the anchor tenants in this DLRD project. | GAA/
Soccer |
Dublin | 4,600,000 |
| 20 | Marlay Sports Hub | Next phase development of a sports hub in the park to cluster different sports (e,g, tennis, cricket, padel) facilities together
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Multi | Dublin | 2,000,000 |
| 21 | Derreen Community Complex, Killarney | Sports Hall for Dojo/Studio, Gym, Multipurpose Meeting room. (Phase 3- & 4) | Martial Arts / Basketball | Kerry | 1,000,000 |
| 22 | Trim Arena | Indoor (dome) athletics facility | Athletics | Meath | 1,100,000 |
| 23 | Cork NW Sports Hub | All-weather facility in Cork City | Soccer | Cork | 1,000,000 |
| 24 | Letterkenny Regional Hub | Phase 2 – GAA pitch, 5 aside pitches, Pavilion Building (spectator stand, changing, studios, meeting, multi-purpose and ancillary spaces) | Multi | Donegal | 8,700,000 |
| 25 | St Jarlath’s, Tuam. | Development of a full-size 4G, floodlit, all-weather synthetic pitch, redevelopment of the existing grass training pitches into a full-size grass playing pitch, and Sports pavilion; pavilion could be a phase 2 element at this funding level. | GAA / LGFA | Galway | 2,000,000 |
| 26 | City North Arena | Indoor Arena is a 200m community-use velodrome cycling track. A multi-purpose, multi-sport floored area providing for combinations of, 1-2 basketball courts, 1 tennis court, 7-8 badminton courts, 3 volleyball courts, and other space for sporting activities. Fixed spectator seating. | Cycling /
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Basketball / Multi |
Limerick | 7,500,000 |
| 27 | Roscommon GAA - Dermot Earley Centre of Excellence | Development of clubhouse, gym, pitches and training area. Floodlighting. | GAA | Roscommon | 5,500,000
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| 28 | Mayo Sports Campus | Multisport – Athletics Track, sprint track, throwing area and cage and jumping facilities. Grass pitch, all weather pitches. Changing room facilities. Floodlighting | Multi | Mayo | 7,500,000 |
| 29 | Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney. | Phase 1: Re-construct the existing spectator terrace at the western end of the stadium and associated works. | GAA | Kerry | 6,000,000 |
| 30 | Killeevan Sarsfields | The proposed development of a new GAA Playing Field | GAA | Monaghan | 1,000,000 |
| 31 | Athletics Track - Mallow | Develop an athletic running track to IAAF standards and floodlighting | Athletics | Cork | 2,000,000 |
| 32 | Patrickswell GAA | The development includes a natural turf full-sized playing pitch, a natural turf training area. A new running track around the perimeter of the main pitch, and a training area, floodlighting, ball stop nets. Development and lighting for existing pitch. | GAA | Limerick | 650,000 |
| 33 | St. Colmcille’s | 2 new playing full-size grass pitches, and 2 new training/juvenile pitches. Area of very significant demand and population growth. At this level of funding, project could be phased. | GAA | Meath | 1,000,000 |
| 34 | Wexford FC | Main pitch development, viewing stand, club hour and training pitches. | Soccer | Wexford | 2,000,000 |
| 35 | Cross-Community Development Project (Naas GAA) | Construction of floodlights, gym and pitches. Area of very significant demand and population growth. At this level of funding, project could be phased. | GAA | Kildare | 1,000,000 |
