The weather has held off and the Glebe's FAI Summer Soccer Camp which took place this week was in full swing, with over 75 schoolboys and girls taking part they carried out various new skills under the watchfull eye of head coach Paul Keogh and his team of coaches,from age groups U7 up to U12+ they recieved there kit and back pack with ball and enjoyed of full programme each day from 10.30am till 3pm, see photo section for all the pictures 16/7/10.
Vicky's U7+ Group Glebe North Fc FAI Summer Soccer Camp 2010.
Eirtricity 11 V Manchester Utd Tickets:
Tickets can be booked on the FAI website for the upcomming match between Airtricity 11 V Manchester Utd. Match is on the 4th Aug. Click on the following link for tickets...
Senior Teams Pre Season:
Senior Team Pre Season training started back Sunday 4th July, second Team training starts back this sunday the 11th. All Welcome. Liam Kelly and James Keddy will be looking after the Senior teams and First Team, Terry Plamer is looking after the second team and Hugh Reilly and Tom Brady the Third Team. Best of luck for the comming season.8/7/10
June 2010:
Any schoolboy manager who wishes to have any match report, team result or any other info put up on the website,feel free to e-mail all information to info@glebenorthfc.ie and it will be posted. This is the clubs website and if you want to see info on schoolboy teams please contact the e-mail address.
May 2010:
Senior Ladies: Glebe North Fc Senior Ladies kicked off there season away to Santry with a 3-3 Draw, followed by there first win away last monday to North Wall by 3 goals to 1, next monday the 31st will see the senior ladies play there first home match againest Everton, we wish them the best of luck for this match.
Glebe North Fc V Everton 31st May 2010 First Home Game of the season. Final score 2-2
AGM 2010: Notice of Glebe North Fc AGM on Thursday 20th May @ 8.00pm All Senior Managers and Schoolboy Mangers to attend on the night, All are welcome.
Feburary 2010:
2nd Team: Congrats to all players and management on reaching the last 16 of the FAI Junior Cup with a 2-1 win over Lagan Harps last saturday.
January 2010:
Charity Match:
From Clare Mullen. Cervical Cancer Vaccine Fund.
Glebe North F.C. VS Bohemians F.C. Venue: Glebe North Football Club Market Green Balbriggan. (Beside Lidl) Date: Tuesday 2nd Feb 2010. Time: 7.45pm. Admission 10euros (Adults) 5euros (Children and Students) ALL PROCEEDS BEING DONATED TO CERVICAL CANCER VACCINE FUND.
Pitch Developments: Work is in progress on our All Weather warm up area to the Town pk side of the pitch this will allow visiting teams and our own team a warm up area before playing on the main pitch, also it will be used on training nights as an additional all weather training area.
December 2009:
Glebe North Committee would like to wish all Managers, players and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Hope to see you all after the christmas break for more football action.
Xmas Raffle Winners:
1st Grace Morrison
2nd Joe Mc Gee
3rd Monica Marry
4th Maureen Dennis
5th Patrica Mc Cann
6th David Browne.
Xmas Raffle: Takes place this friday at the Bingo, please ensure all tickets are returned asap before friday.
November 2009:
Christmas Raffle 2009:
1ST PRIZE €500 CASH.
2ND PRIZE XMAS HAMPER.
3RD PRIZE TURKEY&HAM.
4TH PRIZE TURKEY&Blt VODKA
5TH PRIZE HAM
6TH PRIZE HAM
Draw will take place at Bingo in the Community Centre on Friday 4th December 2009
Tickets €2 each or Book of 10 €20
In house raffle on the night.
Glebe North A.F.C would like to thank you for your support and wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Sporting Fingal: Congratulations to Sporting Fingal on there Double, FAI Ford Cup Winners and gaining promotion to the League of Ireland Premier Division, Best of luck from all at Glebe North Fc.
Jack Benton RIP: Its with great sadness the club learned of the death of Jack, having been one of the founders of the Adult Dancing which take place in the clubhouse every saturday night,Jack will be missed.Our sincere condolences to Chris and the family on the death of Jack. May he Rest in Peace.
October 2009:
New sponsor for First Team.
New All Weather Area: Work has started on this new all weather area on the town park side of the main pitch,site has been cleared and the drainage is currently been installed,further updates to follow. 7/10/09
Pitch Works: The finishing touches are been applied by Sportworks to the main pitch and the first home match is on Friday 16th October when Glebe Host Broadford Rovers in the first round of the Chairle Cahill Cup, plans are also under way to install a new all weather strip along the town park side of the ground, this will provide a warm up area for home and visiting teams and will also provide a extra all weather surface for training nights. More details will follow on this project. 6/10/09
July 2009:
First Team and Second Team:
Pre Season Training starts back on Monday 13 July for the first team at 7.30pm Pls bring boots and runners, New players welcome...
2nd Team pre season starts back Monday 20th July at 7.00pm New playres also welcome......
June 2009:
Main Pitch: Check out our pitch development 09 page for future pics of the new pitch development over the summer 09
May 2009:
Main Pitch: Spraying has taken place and anyone who has been down on the green will have noticed the grass has started to die off, this will allow the contractors to move in onto the pitch next week, to begin the digging and leveling of the pitch.
Pic Main Pitch Friday 29/5/2009.
First Team: Glebe North First Team finish 5th in there first year back in the top division, with a fine run in to the end of the league, First team manager Liam Kelly is very happy with the whole squad's performance over this season, and is looking forward to a even better performance next season, friday's nights awards for the senior squads will be a time for all players and backroom staff to relax afer a tough season.
First Team / Second Team Awards 09: Awards of 1st and 2nd team player of the year will take place this Friday the 29th May in Balrothery Inn.
Main Pitch Now Closed: Spraying of the main pitch has taken place to kill off the grass surface,drainage and site work will start in June 09, Details of progress and pictures will feature in this news section over the summer.
Under 16 Ken Mc Kay Cup Winners:
Congrats to the schoolboy Under 16 team who won the Ken Mc Kay Cup by beating Ashbourne 4-3 at the Oscar Traynor Centre.
Main Pitch: The main pitch at market green will close from the middle of next week as a plan of major works get's under way, this work will be on going over the summer months,the main pitch is been replaced with new drainage and top surface, the local company Sportsworks will be carrying out the work, this is just part of the main committee's projects of works for the club. With the floodlights been a great asset to the club this new pitch will be even greater.
Planning:Fingal County Council request Additional Information for our planning application, this may slow up our progress with the application but we hope to have resolved all issues with the application over the next few weeks.
April 2009:
The club are currently in another planning application, for construction of a) New spectator stand to southern side of existing playing pitch (area 167 sq.m. - Height 5.5m) b) New turnstile, boundary wall and railings along northern boundary (Height 3m) c) Associated siteworks including removal of existing ditch along northern boundary, new screen planting along wall and surface water connection to mains. We all hope we will be granted planning for the above to enchance our club.
February 2009:
Jack does the honours: With a crowd of 1500+ a great night was had by all, the result did not matter the memory of martin #45 will live in the memory of all players and public on this historic night.
Captain Fantastic................
Official Switching On of Floodlights:
The official turning on of the new floodlights will take place on Wednesday 18 Feburary at 6pm, all members are welcome to attend, Mr Jack Reid the last remaining founder member of the club will carry out the turning on. This will be followed with the Glebe V Bohs match.
January 2009:
Official Launch of Martin Finnegan Charity Match
Brian Kerr officially launched the Charity Benefit Match Night between Glebe North and Bohemians last weekend.
The match between these two top teams will take place on Wednesday February 18th at Glebe North’s Market Green in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. Kick off is at 7:30pm. The beneficiary of the event is the Martin Finnegan Benefit Fund. Martin, one of the best motorcyclists ever to come out of Ireland was Irish Motorcycle Road Race Champion.
This event marks a coming together of two completely different disciplines of sport and the only winner on the evening is sport itself. I hope the evening will be a successful and enjoyable evening for all involved” said Shay Whierty, chairman of the Martin Finnegan Supporters Club. “A special word of thanks must go to the players of Glebe North and Bohemians, my own team in the Supporters Club and above all the committee of Glebe North F.C. for making this event happen.”
Tickets for the event are now on sale at a cost of €10 and can be purchased from Glebe North F.C., Lusk United, Xtreme 45, Round Towers GAA, Lusk and Swords Motor Factors and any member of the Supporters Club.
Details of this fantastic event will be published in Fingal Independent, Irish Daily Star and Evening Herald in the run up to the event.
Charity Match for Martin Finnegan Benefit Fund
Glebe North FC verses League of Ireland Champions Bohemians February 18th at 7:30pm Market Green, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. Tickets on sale €10 each.
Glebe North are celebrating the official turning on of their brand new flood light Pitch at their home ground with a charity match against League of Ireland Champions Bohemians at 7:30pm on Wednesday February 18th. Founding members of the club along with well know sportsmen and local politicians will be in attendance for the evening.
In partnership with the Martin Finnegan Supporters Club all funds raised on the night will go to the Martin Finnegan Benefit Fund. Players from both teams will be wearing special new kit for the evening with the famous “Finnegan “and “#45” displayed on the jerseys. Martin was well known to many of the players and was considered a sporting hero to many in the club.
This is a true sporting event for all the family to enjoy with Balbriggan and Fingal’s best taking on the best soccer team in Ireland. Refreshments will be served throughout the evening.
Interest in the event is already very high with a full coach of supporters already booked from bohemians. This is also an occasion for all Martin Finnegan supporters to meet up. Further details can be got near February 18th here on www.finn45supportersclub.com or www.glebenorthfc.ie which has a link on our links page.
Tickets go on sale January 20th but can be pre ordered from Glebe North FC, Xtreme 45 or from any member of the Martin Finnegan Supporters Club Committee.
Glebe North Fc Committee: would like to wish all Players,Managers, Schoolboy's, Parents, Ladies Committee and sponsor's of the club a very Happy Christmas and New Year. There will be one more Lotto Draw on Monday 22/12/08, then the next draw is in the new year on Monday 12/1/09.16/12/08
Glebe North Fc has created a new football Forum for all the news and goings on at ground level within the club. This Forum will have an adminstrator to remove any unwanted posts if necessary. Enjoy the forum, the link is on the forum page of the website. 5/12/08
November 2008:
Metro Cup: Glebe North have been drawn at home to local club Skerries Town, we look forward to welcoming Skerries to glebe for a floodlight game on Friday 14 november 08 at 7.30pm.
Glebe North Christmas Raffle 2008, Please support our up comming Raffle all schoolboy managers have been issued with there tickets,and these tickets need to be returned within 2-3 weeks sold or unsold, the draw take place at the Bingo in the Community Centre on Friday 5th December 2008 Tickets are 2 euro each or a book of 10 for 20 euro. Ist prize in the raffle is 500 euro with 5 other prizes too, an in house raffle will also take place at the Bingo, Good luck and pls support this Draw as all proceeds go to the schoolboy section of the club.Tickets will also be on sale around the town over the next few weeks.
October 2008:
Next home game is Friday 31st October 2008 againest Belgrove at 7.30pm Market Green.
September 2008:
Friday nights game was called off due to the weather on thursday night / friday morning, the next home game and hopefully the first under lights will be Wednesday 17/9/08 at 7.30pm, Cherry orchard being the vistors on the night.On other news Glebe's First Team have being drawn at home to Mahahide in the first round of the FAI Inter Cup time and date to be comfirmed. 7/9/08
Friday night football this week, Glebe North first team will play there first game under the new fllodlights this friday night, Tolka Rovers are the lucky vistors and lets hope this is a night to remember.2/9/08
AUGUST 2008:
Late Night Soccer 5a Side:
Please note upcoming late night soccer event taking place in Glebe North, Balbriggan. Your help promoting this event with the relevant age groups would be much appreciated. FAI/Fingal Late Night Soccer Futsal 5-asideVenue - Glebe North FC all-weather pitchTime - 8pm-10pmDate - Every Friday starting 22nd Aug until 26th SeptPlayers can turn up in squads of 7 players or in smaller numbers and we will place on teams.Age Group 16+Cost - Free
First Team Pic: This is the first team which played Glenavon.
JULY 2008
What's Happened on the Green?: Anyone passing our ground will have noticed that our floodlighting masts are erected and friday night football is not far away on the green. The Sls Group have being busy over the past couple of months working on the floodlight project, and with the sports grant approved the final adjustments and testing of the floodlights will take place this week.Lets light up the green.....
Pre Season Match Update: Glebe will play against Glenavon on Sat 2nd Aug the game kicking off at 3pm. Tony Grant and Adrian Harper both started their football careers with us at schoolboy and senior level and Tony has promised that Glebe will give the Glenavon lads a good workout! This will be a good workout for the lads before the kickoff of the new season on 16/17 Aug. Watch this space for news of more pre season matches.....Extra Match Glebe V Monaghan Monday 4/8/08 at 11.00am
Pre Season Training : Training as started for the senior teams, Tue and Thurs at 7.00pm are the two main training nights with additional days been added by the senior management as required, plans are in progress for pre season matches for both senior teams with some dates set, Glebe will play Shelbourne on wednesday 9th of July at Home then another Home match with Sporting Fingal on Saturday 12 July from those two encounters they will travel to play Blarney Utd from the Beamish Senior Premier Division and Mayfield Utd from Div 1 in Cork on the weekend of the 19th of July at Mayfield Grounds in Co.Cork. On the monday of 21st July it will be Dundalk at home. For all details of these up comming fixtures see Results and Fixtures page....
Leinster Senior League : Pat Campbell and Hugh Reilly collected the Senior 1 Cup on Saturday night in Westmanstown at the Leinster Senior League presentation night / dinner dance.
Sports Grant 08: Glebe North Fc will hope to hear good news on this years sports capital grants which are due to be announced in mid june, after been granted planning for the floodlights our next step is the sports capital grant, we will hope the minister will grant the funds necessary for the final phase of the floodlight project.........
FAI Summer Soccer School 2008 : GlebenorthFC will hold their summer camp from 07 July to 11th July 2008 from 10:30 - 15:00 each day. >For more details click here<.
www.GlebenorthFC.ie : As you will see we are busy working on revamping our website and details on its official launch coming soon.
JUNE 2008
Clubhouse Developments: The front section of the clubhouse is nearing compleation,the main hall is finished and a new kitchen has just been installed. During the quite summer months work will contuine on the back section ,Dressing Rooms and Showers will be replaced and all work is due to be complete before the start of the 08/09 season. Please be patient while this work is on going.
Schoolboy/girl Soccer Blitz / Awards 08: Last saturday saw a great turnout for the schoolboy /girl Soccer Blitz and Awards, all teams in the schoolboy section played a soccer blitz from 12.00 till 4.00 and during the day player of the year and most improved player was presented to each team at schoolboy /girl level. "This has been one of the best seasons for Glebe North Fc Schoolboy/girl section" Chairman Anto Byrne said during the award presentions as he congradulated all the teams on there season just gone. Pictures of the day will be uploaded on this site very soon.
Website Udated: During the summer months the website will be developed further in prepration for the 08/09 season, as of today 5 th june 08 the schoolboy/girl news section has been added and further pics of the schoolboy/girl awards and the senior awards night will be posted shortly.............More links added to the links page..........
MAY 2008
FloodLighting : Planning permission for floodlights has been granted, the construction phase for these will commence soon.
