The deadline for receipt of applications under the new round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) has been extended to 5pm on Monday 1 March to assist any clubs who may be encountering difficulties finalising their applications due to Covid-related restrictions.

By David Swanson
In the past 150 years, U.S. presidents have lied, cheated, stolen, warmongered, incited hatred and violence, driven inequality and corruption through the roof, taken over major powers from the Congress and abused them, gained the power of nuclear war and abused it through numerous threats, accelerated the destruction of the earth's environment, failed to protect the basic rights of people, pardoned their cronies for outrageous crimes, committed thousands of specific, open, public, and indisputable impeachable offenses, and been impeached for only two things.

Clubs are being encouraged to register now for the Sports Capital & Equipment Programme for 2021 under a €40 million grant scheme being made available in 2021 under a new round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP).

The Arts and Culture and Recovery Task Force, established in early September this year in response to the effects of the Covid pandemic, has now published its first report detailing its recommended measures to support the sector towards a sustainable recovery.

An extra €700,000 is being made available to the Government's Music Industry Stimulus Package to stimulate song writing, recording and album releases.

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The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, and Minister of State, Jack Chambers TD, today (October 14) announced details of €1,081,818 gross funding allocated to the Department in Budget 2021, covering a range of robust new funding streams and measures to ensure the survival and recovery of businesses and operations in sectors overseen by the Department.

A new Taskforce for the recovery of the Arts and Culture sector under the Chair of Clare Duignan has been announced today by Catherine Martin, Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht .

This August, Philadelphia Folk Festival has, for the first time ever, dedicated a full day of its programme to performances by Irish musicians. Scheduled to run for 12 hours on Saturday 15 August, a stage of the 59th Philadelphia Folk Festival will host 18 of Ireland’s finest music acts with the support of Culture Ireland.

A webinar designed to explore the value of the Arts and Creativity in promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing among older people, Tuesday 21st July 2020

The Creative Ireland Programme in association with Healthy Ireland and the HSE Mental Health & Wellbeing Programme have announced a Creative Conversation webinar which will explore how creative activity impacts on the mental wellbeing of older people.

Saturday 13^th June 2020 marks Cruinniú na nÓg 2020, Ireland's national day of free creative activities for children and young people under the age of 18, and today (9 June 2020) Josepha Madigan T.D., Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, encouraged young people all over Ireland to get online, get involved and get creative for Cruinniú.

Social and domestic life in most of the developed and sheltered countries of our world has been torn apart by the covid-19 disease and the lock down measures taken by governments.