What started out as a pipe dream 6 years ago has now become reality as we have turned Suir Crescent into a state of the art facility that our current crop of youngsters, both male and female will enjoy for years to come and also many generations after them. It took 2 years and many calls and emails through local councillor Patrick Dunphy, John Paul Phelan TD and the then Junior Housing Minister Paudie Coffey TD to secure our 30 year lease and from there it took enormous patience from the time John Crowley generously sprayed off the old property to main contractor Declan Walsh and Sons taking on the task of stopping and starting and eventually overseeing a brilliant project that all in Mooncoin can be very proud of. We have attached some photos from before the soccer club’s time…… to John Crowley getting ready to spray……to discovering the old drainage system if you can spot it…….. to a handsome Stephen Walsh preparing drains…. to where we were this evening in glorious sunshine with our u11 squad enjoying their return to training.
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Exciting new chapter
Tomorrow evening will see a new exciting chapter begin for the club when the first of our underage teams will start using our new ground in Suir Crescent for training purposes. Over the next couple of weeks we will be getting used to our new surroundings around drop offs, parking and picking up in the new ground. We are asking all when entering Suir Crescent, please proceed at a reasonable speed and always respect the residence of Suir Crescent when entering and leaving the ground.
It has taken many years to get to this point with the ground now ready for use. All the people of Mooncoin are welcome to come up any evening this week to take a look for themselves to see what a wonderful facility has been developed for the next generation of kids to enjoy.
300 club Update
Update for our 300 Club members. We will be holding 4 monthly draws on Friday 30th April. We will have our January, February, March and April draws in one. As always, the draw will be held live so tune in on the night to see if you have been lucky. 8 p.m. 30th April.
Mooncoin Celtic 300 Club Syndicate Update
With Covid restrictions easing later in the month, we will be holding the outstanding monthly draws for January, February and March and also holding our April draw for our confined members, date and time to be confirmed for our draws which will be live here on our Facebook page .
Also, with the easing of restrictions, our underage teams are getting ready to return to training and all going well they will be training in our new ground in Suir Crescent in two weeks time.
Last Man Standing Update
So another 2 entries dropped tonight with Everton failing to win. That leaves 15 going through to Week 8 in the race for €500. There will be a couple of weeks break until the next full round of fixtures due to FA Cup Semi Finals and the League Cup final. Fixtures will be sent out in due course. Best of luck to all remaining entries.
Last Man Standing Update
After Saturday and Sundays games we lost 7 more entries due to Man City and Burnley failing to win. 12 entries breathed a sigh of relief this evening as Arsenal won and that makes it 15 through to Week 8 while 2 are waiting on Everton away to Brighton tomorrow evening.
3rd anniversary
Today marks the 3rd anniversary of the passing of our dear friend and coach Rocky. His colourful character and presence is still very much missed around our club and village. RIP Coach Rocky
Last Man Standing Update
24 entries head in to Week 7 and the panic has set in as 12 of them have plumped for Arsenal away to Sheffield Utd on Sunday evening. 6 have gone with Man City at home to Leeds in the early kick off tomorrow. 2 have backed Liverpool and 2 are hoping Everton can win away to Brighton on Monday night. We also have one each on Chelsea and Burnley. A wide range of picks as we expected with a lot of so called big guns used by all already. Expect a few fallers again in the race for the €500 prize. Best of luck to all 24 remaining entries.
LMS: Everton, Everton, Everton!
Another 6 bite the dust thanks to the ever consistent Everton not holding on to a lead. West Ham did hold on to send another 2 through to round 7. 24 head into Week 7 with a difficult weekend of fixtures ahead. Best of luck to all remaining entries.
Sign added to acknowledge support
We added a second sign recently to Suir Crescent acknowledging Kilkenny County Council’s contribution towards the development. In 2019, we were awarded €30000 by the Council towards security fencing and hedging. With the fencing and planting of hedging completed it has added a real structure to the boundary of the ground. That brings the contribution in grants towards the development to €105,000 to date and without these grants some of the work completed so far would not have been possible. To all that contributed towards the successful applications, a big thank you.
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