Grainy Photo of Castleisland AFC Team from Spring 1976

The Castleisland AFC team pictured before a game at Tonbwee, on the field now occupied by Castleisland Community College in the spring of 1976. Players, front from left: Domo Ó Ciardubháin, John W.H. O’Connor, P.J. Luddy, John Lyons, Tom Lynch and John ‘Dom’ O’Connor, Back from left: John Begley, Genie McCarthy, Tim Cremins, Edward Sheehy, Denis Porter, James ‘Jas’ O’Sullivan, Jamesie O’Callaghan and J’J’ Broderick ?. So far on the identity of the supporters we have readers suggestions for: Dermot Hanifin, Tom Brennan, Paul Nolan and Timmy Kerins.  Photograph: John Reidy 1976.

I got completely caught up in a trip down memory lane this afternoon. I was accidentally rerouted when I found a set of negatives I haven’t seen for 45 years.

A number of the frames on the strip caught my eye in particular. They were of a Castleisland soccer team before a game in Tonbwee on the field where the community college now stands.

I took them on a little pocket Kodak 110 cartridge film camera and in the spring of 1976.

The film is grainy and the photographs dog rough but I was so delighted to find it that I made a film carrier from black paper to adapt it to my scanner.

I can make a fair effort at naming the team but the young supporters have me beaten, though I think I know a couple of them.

I’ll leave the supporter’s names to those who know them for sure and if I get the names in I’ll add them to the caption.

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