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The Parish Hall at Greenside, Carrick-on-Suir, which is home to St Nicholas Boxing Club
A Carrick-on-Suir boxing club has secured €95,000 funding from the Department of Rural & Community Development to enable it purchase its training hall.
St Nicholas Boxing Club’s members and coaches feared four and a half years ago that they would lose their home – the Parish Hall at Greenside, Carrick-on-Suir - when it was put on the market for sale by St Nicholas Parish.
The €95,000 Community Recognition Grant the Department of Rural & Community Development allocated the club last week will be used to purchase the hall from the Diocese of Waterford & Lismore and refurbish the building’s roof.
St Nicholas Boxing Club Secretary Anthony Benesch said everyone at the club was “ecstatic” at the news as the grant will help secure the club’s future.
He paid tribute to Tipperary County Council which supported the club’s funding application and the Diocese of Waterford & Lismore, which was selling the Parish Hall to the club for below market value.
St Nicholas Boxing Club boasts about 70 members including many children and its training sessions have been based at the Parish Hall for over 25 years.
Mr Benesch learned about the approval of the grant after he arrived in Bosnia last week to attend the European Schoolboys & Schoolgirls Boxing Championship in Banja Luka.
St Nicholas Boxing Club member Rylee Finn from Castle Court, Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir represented Ireland in the U-13 40kgs class in the championships.
Other grant recipients
St Nicholas Boxing Club was one of six south Tipperary organisations to secure a share €360,845 worth of Community Recognition Grants in the latest round of allocations. The other grant recipients are:
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