{"id":106004,"date":"2025-10-07T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:12:12","slug":"it-would-be-unbelievable-if-league-of-ireland-academies-get-the-funding-spurs-bound-mason-melia-hopes-for-budget-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106004\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It would be unbelievable if League of Ireland academies get the funding\u2019 \u2013 Spurs-bound Mason Melia hopes for budget boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mason Melia joined up with the Ireland U-21's squad at the Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown ahead of Friday's qualifier. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3253512.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mason Melia joined up with the Ireland U-21&#8217;s squad at the Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown ahead of Friday&#8217;s qualifier. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The League of Ireland\u2019s first million-euro export Mason Melia insists that domestic academies need Government funding if clubs are to produce more players like him in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government will unveil Budget 2026 tomorrow with League of Ireland academies hoping for good news to help improve facilities and coaching numbers across the country in a post-Brexit environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Mason Melia joined up with the Ireland U-21&#8217;s squad at the Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown ahead of Friday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10472,18,19,17,2723,132,43518],"class_list":{"0":"post-106004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-budget-2026","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sean-oconnor","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}