County Board officials signed the contract for the building of the new Centre of Excellence at Scarden last week to signal the final phase of the €3m development.

The contract for the building was awarded to Arken Construction who have commenced work on the building in the past week. It is expected that the building work will be completed by late Autumn.

The new Complex which will incorporate 4 dressing rooms, Gym, Medical room, Store room and Toilet facilities with the upper floor incorporating the new County Board office and meeting rooms.

In total the final phase will cost in the region of €700k with funding already in place from both Croke Park and Sports Capital funding.

The fund raising effort for the facilities already in place continue through Club Sligo and County Board Chairman used the opportunity to pay a sincere thanks to all Clubs in the county who supported the recent fund raising drive.
The draws for the first quarter took place at the recent County Board meeting and the prize winners were as follows;
Club Sligo Members Draw-January
 
Prize
Name
Address
1st
€ 1,000
Bernard Brennan
Strandhill
2nd
€ 250
Ger Canning
Cannings Spar, Sligo
3rd
€ 100
Denis Gormally
Achonry
4th
€ 100
Tommy Parkes
Parkes Garage, Ballisodare
5th
€ 100
Cohan & Adrian Taaffe & Enda McGoldrick                Ballintogher
6th
€ 100
Damien Tansey
Wine Street, Sligo
7th
€ 100
Brian Reilly
Carraroe, Sligo
8th
€ 100
Blair Feeney
Dromore West

Club Sligo Members Draw-February
 
Prize
Name
Address
1st
€ 1,000
St. Joseph's Hospital
Sligo
2nd
€ 250
John Clifford
Clifford Electrical, Carraroe
3rd
€ 100
Mark Quinn
Castlegal, Sligo
4th
€ 100
Padraig Cafferty
Datascan, Dublin
5th
€ 100
St.Molaise Gaels Big 6 Syndicate
 Grange
6th
€ 100
Damien Tansey
Wine Street, Sligo
7th
€ 100
Thomas Kilfeather
Grange
8th
€ 100
Vivion & Anne Boyd
Riverstown

Club Sligo Members Draw-March
 
Prize
Name
Address
1st
€ 1,000
Paul Mahon
Skreen, Co.Sligo
2nd
€ 250
Anthony Ryan
Knocknarea, Sligo
3rd
€ 100
Shane Kilcoyne
Tubbercurry
4th
€ 100
Bill O'Kelly Lynch
Kevinsfort, Sligo
5th
€ 100
Joe Taaffe
Ballintogher, Co.Sligo
6th
€ 100
Jim Kent
Ballina, Co.Mayo
7th
€ 100
Declan Clarke & Cathal Killoran
Bunninadden, Co.Sligo
8th
€ 100
Michael Hannon
Gurteen, Co.Sligo

The Centre of Excellence is certainly fulfilling its potential with all the County teams and development squads utilising the facility since March. And in the past few weeks the Centre has hosted many Underage finals providing opportunities for all our young players to enjoy the new facility with 20 Clubs so far having played there.
The County Board wish to once again reiterate their apology to both Easkey and Ballymote Minors for the circumstances leading to their final at the Centre of Excellence being postponed.
Over the next few weeks both the Minor and Senior footballers and the Senior hurlers will be using the Centre extensively as they prepare for their Championship encounters in June.

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