{"id":431396,"date":"2025-09-17T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431396\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:50:16","slug":"councillors-in-derry-express-fury-as-north-west-clubs-miss-out-on-dup-ministers-football-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431396\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillors in Derry express fury as North West clubs miss out on DUP minister\u2019s football fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A general view of the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium in Derry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3198101.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)\">A general view of the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium in Derry<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Balfour, Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Today at 16:30<\/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)\">Councillors in the North West have said that there is \u201ccomplete anger\u201d that two clubs failed to receive any NI Football Fund funding in a recent announcement.<\/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)\">Last week, the DUP Communities Minister Gordon Lyons revealed that both Derry City and Institute Football Club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/ministers-football-stadia-funding-decision-puts-boot-into-derry-clubs-local-politicians-say\/a1078677295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had been unsuccessful in their bids<\/a> to the NI Football Fund, a government programme to invest in Northern Ireland\u2019s football infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A general view of the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium in Derry Andrew Balfour, Local Democracy Reporter Today at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[924,1817,42497,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-431396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","9":"tag-derry-news","10":"tag-gordon-lyons","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115220200167040585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431396","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=431396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}