{"id":591575,"date":"2025-11-24T22:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591575\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:02:25","slug":"irish-league-northern-ireland-football-fund-applicants-told-to-pause-spending-amid-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591575\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish League: Northern Ireland Football Fund applicants told to pause spending amid legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sports Minister Gordon Lyons speaks at the Northern Ireland Football Fund launch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4b7d77e1-e871-4493-80a6-392e6fc53d1f.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)\">Sports Minister Gordon Lyons speaks at the Northern Ireland Football Fund launch<\/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 has advised Irish League clubs who were successful in advancing to the next round of the Northern Ireland Football Fund (NIFF) not to spend money on their funding projects for the time being, Belfast Telegraph Sport can reveal.<\/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)\">Twenty clubs had their applications advanced to the next stage in September, including big winners Glentoran and Cliftonville, who each applied for funding of more than \u00a36m from Tier Three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Sports Minister Gordon Lyons speaks at the Northern Ireland Football Fund launch Sports Minister Gordon Lyons has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[21747,42497,1144,58912,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-591575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-for-communities","9":"tag-gordon-lyons","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\/115606936451679142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591575","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=591575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}