Bellurgan Utd have been given the go ahead to carry out a series of upgrades to their pitch at Tom Flynn Park.
The club have secured conditional planning permission from Louth County Council to install floodlighting on the main pitch. This would involve the installation of eight 18m high steel columns with five lights on each.
They also hope to install a new ball stop behind pitches two and three. This would be 6m high and 18m wide and be located along the eastern boundary of the site.
Bellurgan Utd are hoping to carry out a series of upgrades to their pitch at Tom Flynn Park.
The club have applied to Louth County Council for planning permission to install floodlighting on the main pitch. This would involve the installation of eight 18m high steel columns with five lights on each.
They also hope to install a new ball stop behind pitches two and three. This would be 6m high and 18m wide and be located along the eastern boundary of the site.
The council are due to make a decision on the matter by April 26th.
The annual Pat Gogarty 5k run and walk in aid of cancer research will once again take place this year on St Patrick’s Day.
The event gets underway from Bellurgan Utd’s pitch at Tom Flynn Park at 9am and takes in the Jenkinstown Forest Trail.
All are invited to attend on the day with further information available by contacting Noel Litchfield on 087 2220877.
Ciaran Casey RIP
The funeral Mass will take place at noon today in the Holy Family Church of 37-year-old Ciaran Casey, who passed away tragically last Friday.
The married father of one passed away in Beaumont Hospital from what The Irish Daily Star has reported to be a blood clot on his brain.
Casey, a bus driver with Bus Éireann, was well known in local football circles having played for the likes of his native Muirhevnamor and Shamrocks over the years. In more recent times he was best known for playing with Bellurgan Utd – whom he joined in 2000 – and was part of the side that beat Rock Celtic 2-1 in the Tully Bookmakers Challenge Cup the weekend before last.
According to today’s Irish Daily Star, doctors advised Ciaran’s family that he died from a rare, aggressive form of leukaemia which was never diagnosed. The Woodbury Gardens man had complained of a swollen leg following Bellurgan’s match last weekend but it is not known if this triggered his underlying illness.
“Ciaran didn’t even know he was ill in any way,” said a source in today’s Star.
“He played the full game last Sunday. He got a small cut on his leg but he played on and there wasn’t a bother on him.
“He was down at training with his club last Tuesday, though he didn’t take part because his leg was sore.
“But he still expected to be fit to play again at the weekend. When he went to hospital on Thursday, it all happened so quick after that.”
Ciaran is survived by his wife Ciara (nee Morgan), daughter Sarah, parents Thomas and Briege, brothers Aidan, Stephen and Seán, sisters-in-law Fiona and Vanessa, grandmother Nancy, parents-in-law Kevin and Miriam Morgan, as well as a wide circle of other family and friends.
May he Rest In Peace.
Ciaran Casey RIP
The death has taken place in tragic circumstances of local man Ciaran Casey.
The 37-year-old married father of one was well known in local football circles and for his work as a bus driver for Bus Éireann.
A native of Muirhevnamor, Ciaran played football with Bellurgan Utd and was regularly lining out at centre-half with the peninsula-based side this season.
Indeed, he featured last Sunday in their 2-1 Tully Bookmakers Challenge Cup victory over local rivals Rock Celtic.
In the days afterwards he felt unwell and was taken to hospital. Sadly he passed away there shortly before midday this morning.
Bellurgan Utd matches at all levels have been postponed this weekend as a mark of respect, while a minute’s silence in Ciaran’s honour will be observed at all other local games.
Ciaran is survived by a wide circle of family and friends and sympathy is extended to all who knew him. May he Rest In Peace.
Funeral arrangements will be made later.
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