Gavan Bergin Reg continued to play at left-half for West Brom until he was moved to the inside-forward position midway through the 1949/50 season. That change worked well for West Brom, who had been in relegation trouble.They started scoring again […]
Read more →David Prendeville Ireland’s World Cup Qualifying campaign finally concluded last month, leaving fans with a genuine sense of hope for this team and what Stephen Kenny can do going forward. It would have been nigh on inconceivable last March, when […]
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Ringsend Rovers and Rathfarnham Punters play a memorial match tonight for an ex-player who passed away at this time five years ago. Brian Morrissey, who hailed from Clonlara, Co Limerick, sadly took his own life Christmas day and since then the Clubs have
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While it really is all about participation and the enjoyable sporting activity that goes with that, success is sweet when it arises. It’s the icing on the cake! As yet another playing season comes towards an end for most of our teams, Clanna Gael Fontenoy can celebrate
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As 2014 draws to a close and we all look forward to the festive period, there is still the small matter of playing out the final few league games for both our Senior and Saturday sides. It’s been a very mixed period for the club. The senior team only recently ended
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The wintery weather has arrived, a period when only the most hardened of supporters will stand rigidly on the sideline. That was indeed the case on Thursday November 14th as our senior side travelled north of the city to take
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During the East Coast Skiff rowing season I got talking to my good friend Mick Curry. We were discussing an article in NewsFour about the Ringsend Gaelic Football team Inse Na Mara who won the 1901 All Ireland. Isles of
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We begin this issue with the news that after five fantastic years at the helm first team manager John Young has decided to step down, the announcement in early October was unexpected but work commitments must come first. The club
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Ringsend based Cambridge Boys Football Club held a 30 year reunion for members of the 1981-82 cup double winning side. Coming together as eight year olds the group played together for almost a decade. They won three school boy leagues
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In days gone by, League of Ireland often threw together some great local derbies, Shelbourne and Rovers would be a big one. In our young days in Whelan House (the first flats in Ringsend) we were divided as to who
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