ACADEMY ROUND-UP: WEEK ONE
All four of our mens underage teams got their EA SPORTS LOI Academy season up and running at the weekend. You can read a full review of their progress below. MU17: Finn Harps 0-0 Dundalk FC The MU17 team returned home from Letterkenny with a point after a scoreless draw against a Finn Harps side who went very direct. Conor Woods’ side defended very well throughout and created a number of [...]
2023 EA SPORTS LOI ACADEMY MEN’S PREVIEW
There’s an exciting weekend ahead for our four male underage teams as the newly titled 2023 EA SPORTS LOI Academy season gets underway.Under the guidance of academy director Derek Boyle, the club’s underage teams enjoyed a very successful 2022 campaign and there has been further progress over the winter with the addition of a WU19 team and the arrival of former first-team striker Johnny Breen as academy strength and conditioning coach. [...]
QUARTET NAMED IN CENTENARY SHIELD SQUAD
Four of our academy players have been named in the Republic of Ireland Schools squad for the Hummel Centenary Shield opener against Scotland on Thursday night. Eoin Kenny (St Mary’s College, Dundalk), Senan Mullen (St Aidan’s Comprehensive School, Cootehill), Callum Bonner (St Patrick’s Classical School, Navan) and Aidan Russell Vargas (Lusk Community College) are all part of John McShane’s panel for the game with the Tartan Army at the hone [...]
ACADEMY STARS CATCH O’DONNELL’S EYE
Stephen O’Donnell has challenged the club’s young players to put themselves in the first-team picture this season. The Lilywites head coach used six academy players - Senan Mullen, Eoin Kenny (pictured above), Callum Bonner, Oisin Coleman, Jake Hough and Anthony Mayo - in the pre-season friendly with Finn Harps at Oriel Park on Friday night. A good weekend for the club’s underage set-up was rounded off on Saturday when Kenny - [...]
ACADEMY STARS SET FOR INTERPROVINCIALS
A number of the club’s academy players will be in action at this weekend’s FAI Schools U18 Boys’ Interprovincial Tournament at the AUL Complex. Eoin Kenny (above), (St Mary’s College, Dundalk), Callum Bonner (St Patrick’s Classical School, Navan), Tom McLoughlin (Malahide Community School) and Aidan Russell Vargas (Lusk Community College) have been named in the Leinster squad which is managed by former Dundalk FC centre-back - and current bray Wanderers manager [...]
GRIMES RETURNS AS U14 ACADEMY MANAGER
Former Dundalk full-back Shane Grimes will be part of the club's academy setup in 2023. The 35-year-old has been involved with the club's pre-academy this season and will assume the mantle of BU14 academy team manager for the 2023 EA SPORTS National Underage League campaign. After coming through the ranks at Oriel Park, Grimes made his debut for the Lilywhites in 2005 and was part of the Dundalk squad that won promotion [...]
