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- Balls.ie is a sport website based in Ireland. It is run by Balls Media. According to The Irish Times in 2015, 1.2 million unique visitors experienced Balls.ie every month. This had risen to 1.7 million by 2016. Balls.ie was founded in 2010. According to Balls Media's Brian Reynolds, it refused two full takeover attempts in 2015. Enterprise Ireland and the National Digital Research Centre provided it with funds of €75,000 in 2014, with a return of around 15 per cent equity at a value of around €500,000. Key Capital, majority owner of The Sunday Business Post, became involved in 2015, first investing over €100,000 to secure minority ownership, but with expectations of later growth in this investment total. At this time it had ten staff. Enterprise Ireland's involvement was remarked upon as it does not tend to become involved with other media (i.e. print, radio, screen); it offered a further €150,000 in 2016, having earlier offered €25,000 in 2013 at three times less per share than in 2016. Basketball Ireland have had Balls.ie as a "digital content partner", with this being the website's first such partnership. It is also involved in video and audio content. (en)
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