Summary of ideas submitted in the Sport category…

• Make more sports professional /semi professional.
• Offer leases in golf clubs as opposed to memberships in order to increase funding.
• Proceed with the plans for a National stadium.
• Promote Irish sports, and ban retailers from stop stocking English football jerseys.
• Provide economically/socially disadvantaged people with supports to train for and run a marathon. I have got great satisfaction from training for and running marathons
• Provide gymnastic facilities in all schools and develop outdoor sporting facilities at abandoned dump sites such as Dunsink.
• Provide more walking paths in urban areas and situate exercise points (outdoor gym facilities) along the way
• Public transport should be equipped to transport bicycles.
• Pursue international sporting events that will generate revenue for the country
• Put a cap on earnings in professional sport.
• Revive the Tailteann Games.
• Schools’ sports facilities should be made available to local communities.
• Sell hurleys abroad and promote hurling as a tourist attraction.
• Stop paying professional sports people big sums of money every week
• Subsidise gym membership in order to encourage attendance, tackle obesity and reduce future health costs for the state
• Support your local soccer teams and stop paying Sky to support foreign teams.
• Tax all bets made in bookmakers’ shops.
• Tax the GAA’s gate receipts.
• The GAA should invest in official GAA-backed clubs to spread Gaelic games throughout the US and other countries.
• The GAA should make their club-houses available for training and other courses targeted at their own members and people from the wider community who now are out of work.
• There should be an increased state focus on fitness campaigns and a national drive to form more sport societies.
• Town running tracks and similar facilities could be converted into temporary Indoor running facilities for the winter months by using inflatable roof structures.
• Use Croke Park as the venue for international athletics events. The stadium is designed to facilitate a running track by the removal of the perimeter seating
• Use Croke Park to host a rugby Six Nations equivalent of English soccer’s Charity Shield.
• Use our regional GAA stadia (Limerick, Thurles, Cork etc) to attract major non-GAA sporting occasions.