Cheers to Cork City and their rebel army on 30-year league milestone
Under the direction of the FORAS (Friends of Rebel Army Society) board of management, Tim Murphy CEO, and John Caulfield and his staff and players Cork City FC are celebrating 30 years in the League of Ireland (LOI) this season, the longest period any Cork team has existed in LOI football.
In 2010, FORAS said enough was enough. They took action and through their proposals, their honesty and focus, they created a strategy of supporters becoming shareholders and not individuals. Supporters want a team and winning will come with structures and policy implementation.
In wishing City a great night at their dinner in Rochestown Park Hotel tonight, I would like to thank the people who were there at the conception in 1983, the birth in 1984 and the nursing years that followed.
It was conceived in the Cork Lord Mayor’s office, the idea being mooted by the late Hugh Coveney (RIP) with Joe Delaney FAI and Pat O’Brien, President of FAI (RIP). It was born in Bundoran at the LOI AGM 1984 and nursed through its infant years with the help of Chris Herlihy, vice-chairman; Richard O’Brien, treasurer; Arthur O’Donoghue, secretary; Kieran Lynch, Christy Looney, Tony O’Sullivan and later followed by Jim O’Callaghan (RIP), John Connolly, and Seamus Casey. The original supporters club consisted of the hardworking John McNamara, Gene O’Keeffe, Maurice Geary, Bryn Owen, Denis Ring, John Cashman and John McSweeney. We must never forget management like Bobby Tambling and Gene Buckley, Tony Allen (RIP) and Donie Leahy, the legend Noel O’Mahony and Michael Punch.
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