Cork dads grieving for their babies after stillbirth or neonatal death team up to play football

'I would never have talked about Kenneth Junior before I met these lads. But now even though it hurts I can tell them part of our own story, how we went through it'

The national Féileacáin Fathers preparing to fly to England for a match against a similar UK charity. The Cork team is playing Transplant Football Ireland in St Colman's Park, Cobh, on February 15 at 5.30pm. 

More than 30 bereaved Cork fathers have used soccer to unite them and support each other through their grief and they are urging others in a similar position to join them.

The new team, which plays a charity match on February 15, is part of national stillbirth and neonatal death support charity Féileacáin.