Derval O'Rourke Receives Top Funding The Irish Sports Council today announced Funding for elite athletes for 2007. Derval O'Rourke is one of eleven in the Contracted category - Alistair Cragg is one of 16 in the World Class category, and there are ten athletes from Athletics Ireland amongst the 61 selected in the International Class. There are 16 athletes named in the Develpmental Class, while ten juniors are named in the Junior Class
| Derval O'Rourke | Contracted | €40,000 |
| Alistair Cragg | World Class | €20,000 |
| Joanne Cuddihy | International | €12,000 |
| Liam Reale | International | €12,000 |
| Paul Hession | International | €12,000 |
| Roisin McGettigan | International | €12,000 |
| Deirdre Ryan | International | €12,000 |
| David Gillick | International | €12,000 |
| Eileen O'Keeffe | International | €12,000 |
| Gillian O'Sullivan | International | €12,000 |
| Olive Loughnane | International | €12,000 |
| Robert Heffernan | International | €12,000 |
| Developmental Squad (16) | €80000 | |
| Colin Griffin | Developmental | |
| Ann Loughnane | Developmental | |
| Linda Byrne | Developmental | |
| Anna Boyle | Developmental | |
| Fionnuala Britton | Developmental | |
| Thomas Chamney | Developmental | |
| Mary Cullen | Developmental | |
| Martin Fagan | Developmental | |
| David McCarthy | Developmental | |
| Sharon Heveran | Developmental | |
| Danny Darcy | Developmental | |
| Mark Christie | Developmental | |
| Ailis McSweeney | Developmental | |
| Eoin Everard | Developmental | |
| Colin Costello | Developmental | |
| Junior Squad (12) | €36000 | |
| Kalyn Sheehan | Junior | |
| Amy Foster | Junior | |
| David McCarthy | Junior | |
| Ciarán Ó'Lionáird | Junior | |
| Kelly Proper | Junior | |
| Christopher Quinn | Junior | |
| Jessie Barr | Junior | |
| Niamh Whelan | Junior | |
| Ciara Cronin | Junior | |
| Tim Harrington | Junior | |
| Mairead Murphy | Junior | |
| Brian Gregan | Junior |
