Kilkenny football club receives huge boost thanks to Texaco funding initiative!

Piltown AFC Football Club has been chosen as the winner of the County Kilkenny award in this year’s Texaco Support for Sport initiative.

€5,000 has been presented to the club to help fund the fit out of the dressing rooms and shower areas with modern facilities.

Tributes paid to Sheila Donnelly of Newpark FRC from city councillors in Kilkenny

Founded in 1948, Piltown AFC has a focus on growing female participation. The club currently has five schoolgirls’ teams participating in leagues and 135 girls playing in total, of which 60 are in the academy section.

Now in its third year, the Texaco Support for Sport initiative – organised by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited, the company that markets fuel in Ireland under the Texaco brand – sees a fund of €130,000 set aside annually for allocation in equal amounts of €5,000 to successful applicants chosen on a county-by-county basis.

Previous Kilkenny winners were Kilkenny Hockey Club (2021) and Marble City Boxing Club (2022).

Congratulating the winners, James Twohig, Director of Ireland Operations, Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited referred to what he called ‘the important contribution’ that sports clubs make within their communities and throughout Irish society as a whole.

"Our initiative provides vital funding to clubs that have an important place in, and seek to enhance their contribution to, their
local communities," he said.