[rrpc]

Originally Posted by pull!the other

And unless I am mistaken an individual Silver Medal and Team Bronze at a World Championships in an Olympic discipline not to mention an individual Silver at an ISSF World Cup IS producing International results.
I think clay pigeon shooting produced the first quota places for Ireland for both Athens and Beijing.
Philip Murphy is ranked NUMBER 2 IN THE WORLD and Derek Burnett has slipped from number 5 earlier in the year to number 11 IN THE WORLD in an Olympic sport!
The Athletic Association of Ireland got €1.1m in 2007 to run their show, Swim Ireland got €591000, tennis €433000, cricket got €290000, canoe union got €270000+ and even surfers got €60000+.
And what did the shooting organisations get?
SSAI got nearly €34000 and the ICPSA got a big fat ZERO.
Who is codding who?

Two individual shooters from the ICPSA got carding grants totalling €32,000 and Derek and Philip got bonus payments of €5000 and €10000 respectively. Did the ICPSA actually apply for a core grant? I note that there was no core grant allocation in 2005 either, I couldn't find figures for 2006, but the ICPSA also got €120,000 for their high performance programme in 2007.

A bit more than zero then.

[zaraba]

Originally Posted by Kryten

but even dressage gets tv air time.

Equestrian sports are huge in Ireland - I know quite a few local papers will publish shooting events if they are informed of results (or get the reporter to go to the event).

[pull!the other]

Originally Posted by rrpc

Two individual shooters from the ICPSA got carding grants totalling €32,000 and Derek and Philip got bonus payments of €5000 and €10000 respectively. Did the ICPSA actually apply for a core grant? I note that there was no core grant allocation in 2005 either, I couldn't find figures for 2006, but the ICPSA also got €120,000 for their high performance programme in 2007.

A bit more than zero then.

The ISC site says the ICPSA got €15000 core funding in 2006 http://www.irishsportscouncil.ie/new...a-24b3256cf8f7 but the ICPSA accounts showed that they got nothing?
I may be wrong but the figures on the ISC site are the allocations for the running of the sport and not the figures for programmes or individuals.
The funding for Derek, Philip and the lads is great but let us not forget it is earned and it is deserved.
So the ICPSA as an association did get zero funding...

[rrpc]

Originally Posted by pull!the other

The ISC site says the ICPSA got €15000 core funding in 2006 http://www.irishsportscouncil.ie/new...a-24b3256cf8f7 but the ICPSA accounts showed that they got nothing?
I may be wrong but the figures on the ISC site are the allocations for the running of the sport and not the figures for programmes or individuals.
The funding for Derek, Philip and the lads is great but let us not forget it is earned and it is deserved.
So the ICPSA as an association did get zero funding...

No, I realise that and referred to core funding as opposed to high performance and carding which are separate. I've no idea why the ICPSA accounts don't show the funding, perhaps it hadn't been drawn down?

The core funding applications are made about this time of the year, so now's the time to get an application in if it's at all possible.