{"id":419010,"date":"2025-09-12T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:42:12","slug":"irish-league-football-david-jeffrey-says-ards-and-institute-badly-let-down-by-northern-ireland-football-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419010\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish League football: David Jeffrey says Ards and Institute badly let down by Northern Ireland Football Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How have a club like Ards ended up with no funding from the NI Football Fund?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/741ec260-5226-443d-9f0c-fd373e76b96b.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)\">How have a club like Ards ended up with no funding from the NI 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)\">Both Ards Football Club and Institute Football Club have been badly let down by 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)\">You may remember in June of 2024, I wrote in this very column that the NI Football Fund should be used to help our nomadic clubs find a new home; that those clubs with the greatest need should be at the top of the pecking order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How have a club like Ards ended up with no funding from the NI Football Fund? Both Ards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[143459,143458,1144,58912,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ards-fc","9":"tag-david-jeffrey","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-playr-fit-championship","12":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115192564806221546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419010","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=419010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}