By Dan Walsh
Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, Dara Calleary, has announced funding of €26.1 million under the 2024 Community Centre Investment Fund, which will deliver enhancement, and refurbishment works on 369 community centres nationwide.
14 centres in Co. Wexford are sharing €912,884 in funding and the distribution is as follows;
Blackwater Parish Community Hall €80,512.
Camross Hall €45,829.
Castlebridge Community Hall €81,400.
Ferns Union of Parishes Community Hall €55,000.
Astro Active Community Centre Kilcannon, Enniscorthy, €100,000.
Kilmore GAA Club Community Complex €53,000.
Kilmuckridge Memorial Hall (KMH) €37,386.
Kilrane Rosslare Harbour Community Centre €99,680.
Oylegate Community Centre €49,424.
St. Mary’s Community Day Care Centre, Wexford €45,982.
St. Bridget’s Community Centre, Wexford €37,683.
St. Michael’s Community Theatre, New Ross €100,000.
Craanford Community Hall €44,827.
Kilanerin Ballyfad Community Centre €82,161.
Minister Calleary said: “The funding I am announcing today under the Community Centre Investment Fund will ensure that 369 communities across our cities, towns and villages will benefit from enhanced community facilities. This follows on from funding for over 400 facilities announced in November.
“Community Centres are the lifeblood of our communities. They play host to some of our most important occasions, in good times and in bad. Again in recent weeks we have seen the importance of these centres for their local communities as many of them became emergency hubs in the aftermath of storm Éowyn,” concluded Minister Calleary.
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