{"id":411249,"date":"2025-09-09T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411249\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:48:16","slug":"ni-football-fund-release-details-finally-revealed-as-irish-league-clubs-set-to-discover-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411249\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Football Fund: Release details finally revealed as Irish League clubs set to discover fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Department for Communities Minister Gordon Lyons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f32b74af-c7e4-4da0-a7c5-bf5580b71512.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Department for Communities Minister Gordon Lyons<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sports Minister Gordon Lyons will make an announcement in Belfast on Thursday revealing which football clubs are in line to receive government money from the Northern Ireland Football Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was back in May 2024 that Lyons launched the NI Football Fund declaring that he would finally release \u00a336.2 million first promised to football by the NI Executive back in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Department for Communities Minister Gordon Lyons Sports Minister Gordon Lyons will make an announcement in Belfast on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,58912,8541,30649,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-411249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-playr-fit-championship","10":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","11":"tag-steven-beacom","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115176073118260697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}