After Saturday’s amazing day-long event, surrounding the official opening of the Georgie O’Callaghan Park, there’s a new endangered species in the Castleisland area. Soccer fans with wellingtons are likely to be consigning their boots to the shed or worse as the new astro turf pitch takes over. It was a day of non-stop activity to…
Some things are simply ordained to fall the way they do – and often long before they do. Last July, Patrick O’Rourke joined Teresa Lonergan in turning the first sod on the site of the new Astro Turf / Georgie O’Callaghan Park Last week he scored the first senior team goal on the finished pitch.…
The Castleisland AFC Player of the Week is ‘keeper, Steven Bartlett who turned in a great display for the senior team against Fenit Samphires in the FAI Cup tie including a save in the penalty shoot-out. By: Juvenile Club PRO, Mike Brosnan Club Results AI Junior Cup second Round. Castleisland AFC 1-1 Fenit Samphires. Aidan O’Callaghan…
The new senior soccer season for 2018/19 kicks off this weekend in the Kerry District League and, again, Castleisland will have two senior teams playing in the top two divisions of Kerry soccer. Kitted Out By Tom McCarthy’s The A team will be contesting Denny Premier A and the B team will be in Denny…
Castleisland AFC Juvenile Registration night which is taking place on this night Wednesday, August 8th from 7-8.30 at the community centre. New Players Welcome “All new players are welcome as we look forward to the opening of our new astro-turf facility later on this autumn,” said club P.R.O., Neil O’Sullivan. Last Man Standing “We are…
Castleisland Community College and Castleisland Soccer Club are delighted to announce that work has commenced on the new Astroturf pitch on land to the rear of the college grounds. They jointly turned the first sod on the new development last evening and were represented, in the historic act, by the college Deputy Principal, Teresa Lonergan…
It has long been customary for sporting heroes to be shouldered from the scenes of their great triumphs. On Thursday, just afternoon, the remains of the late Georgie O’Callaghan were taken shoulder high through his native town to his final resting place. Family members and former juvenile players shared the shouldering from the Church of…
Sporting circles in Castleisland are reverberating all morning with the wonderful news that John Delaney and the FAI have rowed in behind the Castleisland AFC/Castleisland Community College Astro Turf Pitch project. And rowed in to the tune of €100,000 at that. Delighted to Announce “Following on from the two hugely successful lip sync battles which…
The way Castleisland AFC went about its business with its Lip Sync Battle at the local community centre on Friday night is the talk of this and surrounding parishes. Almost 1,200 people packed the centre with atmosphere, colour and excitement and in anticipation of a great night’s entertainment. They got what they went for –…
I have sat and stood on soccer-field sidelines on several big occasions for the Castleisland club in recent years. More than once in the course of my hours there have I seen, albeit through a lens, Patrick O’Rourke slip easily into the role of club and team hero. In more recent years, as his serious…
