High Performance

Sport Ireland aims to ensure Ireland's performances in elite international sport improve and to create consistent success at elite level defined as producing Irish athletes in the finals at European, World, Olympic and Paralympic level. Since the launch of the High Performance Strategy in 2001 over €XXXXXX million has been invested in high performance grants.

The Irish public through Sport Ireland, support the High Performance Programmes of 20 national governing bodies of sport. Since inception over €XXXX million has been invested in supporting a expanding range of sports. In 2015 over XXXX million will be invested directly to support the high performance programmes of national governing bodies in addition to core grant, women in sport and direct athlete funding.