The senior presentation dinner in the Plaza Hotel Tyrellstown is this Friday. Tickets are available at a cost of €40 and all are welcome. To get a ticket, Call David Bates on 0870516220 or John McGuinness on 0857168009.

Not only has it been a long time since a team from outside its respective top division reached the semi final of the FAI junior cup but it must have been a long time since a manager outside of the top division in the AUL received the manager of the year.

Paddy Staleton did just that in the regency hotel and credit to him and of course Anto Brennan who also was part of the great season.

UP THE DUFF;-)

Of the hits that come in to the site, there is a regular hit from Australia and the image clicked is always the Sunday side or the winning memorial side from last season. So to Johny Kinsella - YOUR A HATCHET ON THE PITCH:-). Have a good one and enjoy the year!

If you were born in 1996 and played as a goal keeper before or even played GAA, we are lokoing for you.

This is an excellent team and the main requirement remaining is a goal keeper.

Leave a message on the guestbook or email us from the contacts page for more information.

Although the season has been finished for a number of weeks, the club is still as active as ever.

On the weekend, the club held its open day for under 7s and trials for existing teams. The day was a big success with the teams who had places - filling them. The under 7s had a fantastic turnout with sixteen players in all. More will filter in over the next few weeks and months and we would ask readers to consider coming in to manage what will from Saturdays evidence be the strongest under 7 side we have produced to date.

The under 18s trained on the weekend and they will hold on to everyone they had at the end of the season, while adding at least three more players to the squad.

The senior squad have made some important changes. The senior Saturday side will be managed by Gerry Kiernan, while the sunday side will be managed again by Paddy Stapelton. The club is looking out for an additional coach to work with a really good squad and contact if you feel your interested and able. Gerry Kiernan is new to the club and joins us after running a number of youth sides and young adult sides in Verona. Gerry is a good football man and we thank him for getting involved with the seniors.

A number of really good players from the Dublin 15 area have already contacted the club with a view to joining the club and are coming from excellent clubs in their own right. This is a fantastic sign for the future and continued progress of the club generally. A club is only as good as its members.

The under 8s all the way to under 13s are now getting back to action with the memorial tournament about one month away. All local clubs will be contacted within the next week on entering this competition.

Finally, congratulations to our neighbours Mountview boys and girls on a fantastic season. Mountview operate like our selves as a community club and its good to see that soccer is thriving in the council estates of Blanchardstown where it is of great benefit to their resepctive communities.