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Wed 05 May 2004Minister rejects 'slush fund' remarkAn Independent TD has claimed that sports grants to three organisations in south Kerry last year were worth more than the allocation to eight other counties.Mr Paudge Connolly (Ind, Cavan-Monaghan) alleged that some grant aid smacked of "political patronage" and that "three concerns in the south Kerry area received more grant aid than allocated to eight counties, namely Cavan, Monaghan, Laois, Sligo, Carlow, Limerick, Longford and Westmeath". He added that Cavan and Monaghan were not getting "their fair share" of the capital grant funding.