St. Fiacc’s Football Club (SFFC) was
established by its founders (James Heary, Bernard O’Shea and Kenny
Hurley) on 10th of August 2002. We are about to enter our sixth
season in the Carlow and district football league. Our home is in
Graiguecullen Carlow to the rear of St Fiacc's national school. We
also have a second pitch beside the arch in Oak Park in Carlow. We
are a small but growing club and since our foundation we have been
fairly successful due to the commitment, dedication and passion of
our players and staff. Our home colours for all our teams are always
blue and white.
As it says above we were founded in 2002. It
all happened at the dinner table of an extremely bad mobile home in
the Dairyland Cuisine yard on the Portlaoise road. A small group of
lads used to play Astroturf five a side once or twice a week and in
chatting about the game we had had the previous night the
conversation between James Heary, Kenny Hurley and Bernard O’Shea
somehow turned to wondering how difficult it would be and how much
effort it would take to start our own amateur team, laughable
really when you think about but nearly five years on and with many
great times had and friends made whenever either of us think back to
that day and look at what we have now with so many people involved,
it always brings a little smile to our faces. The very next day each
of us had a job to do, to gather all the information and details we
needed to assess whether it was all possible and in doing so and
taking everything from jerseys and equipment to players and pitch to
insurances and most importantly money into consideration we decided
it was possible if we put our minds to it and with that and a lot of
work ST. FIACCS FOOTBALL CLUB was born.
Don't get me wrong it wasn't easy to set up and
it was very difficult to secure a pitch, but after several meetings
all over the town with many people we finally secured a pitch and
set up our home in the school field in Graiguecullen, the perfect
place. As difficult as it was for a bunch of lads who hadn't a clue
the most difficult part has been keeping things going and always
trying to do what was best for the development of the club. For all
the good times we have had there has been equally as many bad times
but we have overcome them all and that’s all history now anyway so
we will leave it at that.
We have had many great days celebrating
different things and usually playing in the background was which is
now a St Fiacc's FC anthem from our second year on, (partially thanks
to Nicky Branagans insisting on playing it every time we won a game
and it stuck) sang by Paddy Casey Saints And Sinners and it really
describes us quiet well.
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Management Committee: |
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Chairman |
Michael Mayling |
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Secretary/Founder |
Kenny Hurley |
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Treasurer |
Shaun Webb |
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Founder |
Bernard O’Shea |
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Founder |
James Heary |
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Vice-Chair |
P J Nolan |
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Committee: |
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P.R.O |
Philip Feeney |
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Child Welfare Officer |
Tracey McDonald |
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Senior B team rep |
Garry McGrath |
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Under 16s Team rep |
P J Nolan |
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Under 9s Team rep |
Paul Hayden |
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Under 10s Team rep |
Tracey McDonald} |
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Over 35s Team rep |
David Cowen |
Source: St. Fiacc's Football Club website
c.2006
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