# Atlantic Philanthropies provides €9 million for sports centre

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/04/14/atlantic-philanthropies-provides-e9-million-sports-centre/
- Published: 2008-04-14T10:37:04+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A state-of-the-art sports centre part funded by American billionaire Chuck Feeney
has opended at Trinity College Dublin. The €30m complex, which includes a 25m swimming
pool with a floating floor and a dramatic 19m high climbing wall visible from the
road, will be open to students, staff and graduates.

Mr Feeney’s Atlantic Philanthropies invested €9m in the facility while Trinity students
raised €4m in five years from 1998 through an annual levy.

The local community in the south inner city is also being encouraged to use the 
facilities and schools in the area are being invited to use the sports hall on a
weekly basis.The centre has been open for use for around a year before today’s official
launch.

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The centre is housed in a modern glass fronted building at the corner of Pearse 
Street and Westland Row. The 25m pool has a state-of-the-art floating floor allowing
depth changes for deep water sports such as scuba diving and water polo while there
is also a hydraulic lift for full disabled access.

Atlantic Philanthropies has provided significant support to Trinity and other Irish
universities over the last ten years.

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