TOMMY MCCONVILLE: TEN YEARS GONE
Ten years ago today, the great Tommy McConville sadly passed away at the age of 67. One of our club and town's most iconic figures, Tommy Mac wore the Dundalk shirt on 580 occasions - a club record - during a career that spanned three decades at Oriel Park, starting in 1964 and ending [...]
TOMMY MCCONVILLE: DUNDALK’S GREATEST EVER
It’s 10 years ago since the great Tommy McConville, one of Dundalk FC’s favourite and most famous sons, sadly passed away. As part of our 'Remembering Tommy Mac' series, we take a look back at club historian Jim Murphy's tribute to a man who played an incredible 580 times for the Lilywhites, spanning three [...]
IN HIS OWN WORDS: TOMMY MCCONVILLE
It’s 10 years ago since the great Tommy McConville, one of Dundalk FC’s favourite and most famous sons, sadly passed away. As part of our 'Remembering Tommy Mac' series, we take a look back at Tommy's interview with Joe Carroll in August 2012 for the Dundalk Democrat's 'Will You Answer The Questions Please' column. [...]
1989: BARRY KEHOE’S TESTIMONIAL
On Monday, June 5th 1989, a crowd of 6,000 people, along with some of the biggest names in football, packed into Oriel Park to pay tribute to one of the town’s favourite sons, Barry Kehoe. In this article, first published in 2019, Gavin McLaughlin takes a look back at a memorable night and the [...]
#GNR120 – 120 YEARS ON, THE JOURNEY CONTINUES
https://youtu.be/tHmG8BLU-70 One hundred and twenty years ago… They didn’t know it at the time, but when the likes of William O’Neill and his fellow workers from the Great Northern Railway decided to change codes from rugby to football in 1903, it was the first act of a story full of twists and turns and [...]
1963: THE HEROES OF ZURICH
September 25th, 1963 is a date that will be etched in the annals of Irish sporting achievements. On that evening, 1,670 kilometres away from Oriel Park, history was made at the Stadion Letzigrund in Zurich as Dundalk Football Club did what no other Irish club had done before: win a game away from home [...]
