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Irish government invests in sport to improve Covid-19 health

THE IRISH Government has agreed a funding package of £76m (85m Euros) to sport as recognition that sport in all its forms is playing a…

David Ferguson2 November 2020

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Community sport can prevent virus spread

ONE OF Scottish rugby's leading club coaches has called for the Scottish Government to grasp the ability of community sport to help stop the spread…

David Ferguson25 September 2020

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Funding brought forward for Scottish sport

SPORTS across Scotland have welcomed extra funding announced by sportscotland to help sport recover from the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, and urged all to help…

David Ferguson4 September 2020

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Scottish Sport in Civic Society 2020 Series (Pt1)

'Everything will be OK (if we) look after each other' By CHARLIE RAEBURN This sign in the window of an art gallery in Edinburgh stopped…

David Ferguson13 August 2020

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PM now listening as research links weight to Covid deaths

THE SCALE of death and illness experienced across the UK as a result of coronavirus could have been prevented had we taken the other pandemic…

David Ferguson27 July 2020

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Scotland’s sport and leisure landscape facing widespread closures

By DAVID FERGUSON THE COVID-19 lockdown was expected to create long-term health and wellbeing issues, but the extent of that impact is beginning to emerge…

David Ferguson23 July 2020

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Club rugby targets six stages to October return

SCOTTISH Rugby has unveiled a six-stage ‘Return to Rugby Roadmap’ (see infographic below) to help clubs re-launch safely in the new season, with an October start-date…

David Ferguson3 July 2020

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‘Let’s create something unique to Scotland’

CURRENT Scotland coaches Gregor Townsend and Shelley Kerr view community and school sport as central to the nation’s recovery from COVID-19 and the health of…

David Ferguson2 July 2020

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Scottish sport begins to re-awaken: new guidance

By Ryan Brown Following a lot of behind-the-scenes work involving the Scottish Government’s Active Scotland division, sportscotland and a range of partners across Scottish sport…

David Ferguson30 June 2020