About Our Club:

Club History

Castlebridge Celtic was founded after a public meeting attended by a large gathering of local people interested in forming a soccer club in the parish of Castlelyons took place on July 10th, 1995. The first election of officers and committee resulted in the following names being recorded in the first minutes from that meeting :

Hon President: Fr. Aidan Crowley; Chairman: John Leetch; Secretary: Maurice Jacob; Treasurer: Denis Granville; PRO: Mick Costigan;
Committee: John O’Shea, Michael Clancy, Danjo O’Brien, Dinjo Daly, Cathal O’Keeney; Gene O’Sullivan; Bernard Maye; Pat Kearney.

Castlebridge Celtic Today

•Castlebridge Celtic is a fully registered club, affiliated to the FAI, competing under the auspices of the West Waterford East Cork League, representing Castlelyons and surrounding districts.
•Over 120 youths from the age of 6 to 16 in Castlelyons and surrounding areas are being catered for by Castlebridge Celtic as well as an adult section of over 30 players.
• Our facilties at Bridesbridge include playing pitch, training pitch and a 1500 sq metre all weather fully floodlit facility.

Current News – Aug 2011

James and Michael Memorial Tournament

On Friday night the club invitational James Sexton and Michael Murphy Memorial 9 a side tournament finals were played at Bridesbridge. This was the first year since 2007 that our 9 a side tournament was played and everyone that saw the two good games on Friday will agree that this is the only way to honour the memory of both James and Michael who also played together in the last final in 2007. The Shield Final between Glanworth United and local side Abbey Youths was a very good open game and although the Youths scored twice in the opening 10 minutes there was very little between these sides all through. Eventually Galnworth pulled a goal back but just before full-time the Youths got a third and were worthy winners of the first time this Shield was played for. Captain Conor McNulty accepted the Shield from John Paul Murphy and Emily Sexton.

The Cup Final played between Valley Rangers and Charlie Macs, Fermoy was a very fast attacking game and many chances were created at both ends before Macs opened the scoring only for Valley to equalise within minutes. The second half started with Valley having the better chances and they should have scored before the Fermoy lads broke the deadlock and went on to score twice more to finish 4 – 1 winners. Gavin Quirke accepted the Cup from John Paul and Emily and thanked all the teams for taking part and looked forward to being back again next year. The winners and runners-up in both finals received their medals afterwards in the Abbey Bar and the Club would like to thank Jim and Aileen for the hospitality and food and to all the supporters who came to the games. Special thanks to the Murphy and Sexton families for their continued support. Thanks to the lads from Conna, Fermoy and Glanworth who came to play in the tournament this year and we hope to see everyone back again next year.

Summer Camp 2 a great succes!

This week our second summer camp ran from 15th to 18th August at the club grounds in Bridesbridge. The camp offered great value for money, plenty of fun and enjoyment and the chance to get some great coaching in also. Thanks to Damien, Brendan, Conor and Ashling for all the help at both camps and with the numbers this year we know next year will be even better and bigger.

Under Age registration for new season

Team registration for new season will start on . This year we will have teams competing in Under 11, 12, 13, 14. Teams will start back in training on Saturday 27th August. Team managers will also be in contact with teams over next two weeks.

The soccer academy will also be starting for Under 8s and Under 10s on Saturday September 10th. Registration for Under 8s and Under 10s will take place on that day at the astro pitch starting at 4pm for Under 8s (born 2004 and 2005) and 5pm for Under 10s (born 2002 and 2003).

Youths and Juniors get season started this week

Our new Youth team (under 17) will start their season this Monday with a friendly fixture at home to Watergrasshill KO 7pm in Bridesbridge. Team manager Paul McNulty wants all players to contact him this weekend to make sure that they have registration forms completed. The opening competitive game is down to be played on Thursday 25th against Blarney in Blarney KO 7pm.

Our Juniors will start their season at home to Clashmore on Sunday next Sunday August 21st in the Bolger Cup, KO 11.30am. Training and friendly games have been going well and the management are very happy with the effort so far.

Congratulations to Castelyons Community Council

Well done to all involved with the new website launched last week and hope it will be a huge ‘hit’ all over the net!

Sympathy

The club offers sympathy to the Dolan families, Coolagown, and Ballymore Eustace, Kildare on their sad bereavement this past week.

Weekend Fixtures

Sunday September 11th

Junior 

Castlebridge v Kilworth

Home - Kick Off 11.30am

Youths U17

Cork Youth League