Training this week is on Tuesday and Thursday at 7.20pm for a 7:30pm start in Highgate Wood School. N88RN. Training is on the grass pitch.

New players welcome, contact John - 07833 016014 or [email protected]

The second instalment of membership is now due for payment. Contact Brian or Sean to arrange payment. Members who pay their membership will get a club gear bag for the first instalment and a club polo when the second instalment is paid.

You need to have paid at least the first instalment to be covered under the players injury insurance scheme.

We will be taking part in the Pieta House Darkness into Light London 5km walk / run on Saturday 10th May. More information on the walk and Pieta House can be found here http://dil.pieta.ie/venues/venue-view/darkness-into-light-london

We are going to create a monthly newsletter, if you would like to write or contribute any content to the newsletter please speak with Johnny Costello.


Player Interview with Patrick Reynolds

How did you get involved with Eire Og?

I got involved with the club when Johnny Costello asked me did I fancy going back playing football when the soccer season was over couple of years ago, the club trained in Finsbury Park at the time. I played a couple of games in the clubs second season. At the end of the season Conor and Paul asked me did I want to get involved with the committee and management. I agreed and stopped playing soccer to focus on the club.

Where do you see the club in five year's time?

This is an interesting one, I see it as been a short, medium and long term plan for the next five years, we have survived as a club in our first couple of years and are now looking to build on the foundations that where put in place by Paul Maher and our founding members, we have excellent training facilities, a panel of just under 45 players. The next step for me is to see the club progress and win silverware this season, I would like to see us win the Junior Championship and secure our pitch and create our own Parish in North London in the next two years. In five years' time we would to be competitive in the Senior division and have some of the lads from the club represent London.

         If you could take a sportsman from another sport and turn him into a footballer, who would you take?

The great Dane Peter Schmeichel, he would be a class keeper but I would play him at full forward, he was known to get a goal of two while playing for United.

         Who's your greatest inspiration in sport?

Not really someone that is famous, but it is my brother Colum, he went through a troubled patch in his late teens and early twenties. Lucky enough for Colly and our family he rekindled his passion for hurling and football, in his first year back playing he won the Junior Championship with our club, he went on to captain the team in the years following, he also has played a couple of times Dublin in hurling.

         If you could play an All-Ireland final in any stadium outside of Ireland, where would you like to play it?

Craven Cottage, been a Fulham and season ticket holder it would be a unique experience to see an All-Ireland in such a small intimate ground. In sure a football or two would end up in the Thames.

         What's the best score you've ever gotten in your career?

It was in a hurling match when I was playing full forward, the sliotar came in and my hurl was blocked so I headed it in off my helmet into the net.

         What is was the last live sporting event you attended?

Fulham v Norwich two weeks ago, hopefully we can avoid relegation. Tweet

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