Sport Northern Ireland ( ir, Spórt Thuaisceart Éireann) is the regional government sports council (funding body) for

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History

It was established under the Recreation and Youth Service (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 as the Sports Council for Northern Ireland, with its purpose defined by Article 3 of the Recreation and Youth Service (Northern Ireland) Order 1986. Another organisation, the Youth and Sports Council for Northern Ireland, had been established by the Youth Welfare, Physical Training and Recreation Act of 1962. From 2006, it organised Northern Ireland's involvement in the

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. It has recently contributed £7m to the building of Northern Ireland's first 50m swimming pool, for

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Structure

Its head office is based at the Malone Roundabout of the A55 and B103, near Barnett Demesne.

Funding

It receives around £7m a year from the National Lottery; the rest comes from the taxpayer.

Centres

It has a national outdoor training centre, the Tollymore National Outdoor Centre, at the base of the

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. This is a training base for mountaineering and canoeing. It was built in 1970. At the Jordanstown campus of

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, it has the Sports Institute for Northern Ireland. This was created in 2002.

References

External links

Sport Northern Ireland

Sport NI at Flickr

Sports Institute Northern Ireland

Tollymore National Outdoor Centre

Video clips

Sport NI YouTube channel

Tollymore NOC YouTube channel
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