€2 million (Per An Smaoineamh Mór Chairman Dr. Laurence Crowley)
minus €300,000 (gov money not paid)
minus €150,000 (hard costs such as taxis and couriers)
minus €200,000 (cash prize money already given out)
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€1,350,000 (Monies remaining)
Like the Cotton Eye Joe sung of in days gone by, I keep asking myself “Where did it come from, where do it go?”
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they did say the two projects would get another 500k each, to develop, have they managed to spend the 200k yet?
http://www.sundayworld.com/showbiz/brunker-meets.php?aid=5721 Sept 2010. Amanda Brunker talks about her long time friend Neil Leyden is set to become a household name by providing jobs – yes JOBS – for thousands of people in the next six months.
and in terms the companies involved and the projects that won http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/union-free-zones/
[…] all boils down to one fact: the State brand was used to promote a private enterprise which appears to have quite a pot of cash behind it. And it’s incredibly easy to gain access to that […]
They will need money to keep an office running for a few years, I’d imagine, to actually run the project. So 500k development/promotion money x 2 and 350k to keep the office going.