Charity Soccer Game is a Great Success!

The charity football match held in aid of the Asthma Society of Ireland on December 22nd in Oriel Park, Dundalk was a great success! The two teams taking part were the "MK Ballymackey" team and the "Deepburn Thistle" team.

The charity football match held in aid of the Asthma Society of Ireland on December 22nd in Oriel Park, Dundalk was a great success! The two teams taking part were the "MK Ballymackey" team and the "Deepburn Thistle" team. Deepburn Thistle emerged victorious in the inaugural AS Trophy in an epic 5-4 victory over MK Ballymackey. There was a lot of support for this charity match from the local community and all the players thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the event, despite the very cold weather!

The MK Ballymackey players mostly come from North Tipperary and played together as a team while attending the University of Limerick. Deepburn Thistle feature players from the four provinces.

This charity football match was organised by Mr Sean Darcy, from Tipperary, who himself has asthma. The event was called the Sweeney Foodstore AS cup. Mr Sean Darcy is actively still collecting pledges made for the event and is very close to reaching his fundraising target of €5000. He has his own mycharity.ie fundraising page http://www.mycharity.ie/events/tipperaryindundalk/ , which has all the details of the event. If you would like to help Sean reach his fundraising target, you can make a donation to this fundraising event by going to Sean Darcy's mycharity.ie page which is: http://www.mycharity.ie/events/tipperaryindundalk/

The Asthma Society of Ireland would like to thank most sincerely Sean Darcy for organising the charity soccer game.  We would also like to extend our gratitude to all the players who took part and the Oriel Park, Dundalk for allowing the ground to be used for this event and all those players taking part. 

Special thanks to "Tipperary Water" for donating water bottles for the event.

The Sweeney Foodstore AS Cup

Oriel Park Dundalk Saturday December 22nd 2007at 5pm

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