The bars at Dalymount Park are open this New Year’s Eve!

€10 ticket includes a free drink and food (chicken & chips) plus a DJ playing from 8pm until late.

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Please find below a list of the prize winners from this year’s Bohemian FC Christmas Draw.

Thank you to all who bought and sold tickets for this important fundraiser.

A special thank-you to Jimmy O’Connor and his fundraising team for their continued efforts.

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Bohemians are delighted to announce defender Anto Murphy has re-signed for 2016, while striker Mark Quigley has rejoined from Derry City.

Murphy, 33, rejoined Bohs in August 2013 having won two league titles, the FAI Cup, the Setanta Cup and the EA Sports Cup during his first spell at the club between 2008 and 2010.

Quigley, 30, previously played for the club in 2011. The following season he won the PFAI Players’ Player of the Year as he helped Sligo Rovers to the league title.

Meanwhile, Bohemians have provisionally arranged the following pre-season fixtures. Please note that venues, dates and kick-off times are subject to change.

PRE-SEASON FIXTURES 

The 2016 Bohemian FC calendar will be available in The Bohs Store at Dalymount Park and online in the coming days. The calendar features the best images, on the pitch and in the stands (and over the River Liffey…) captured over the past twelve months by photographers Eddie Lennon, Tom Beary, David Lane and Paul Reynolds. Priced at €12.50, it is the ideal Christmas stocking-filler for any Bohs-mad family or friends!

David McSherry recently caught up with Bohs’ 2015 Player of the Season Roberto Lopes at the Bohemian Bar in Phibsborough. Pico discusses life on and off the pitch as a player for the club, his highs and lows of the 2015 season, as well as his hopes for the forthcoming season.

Interview: David McSherry
Production: Peter O’Doherty / podproductions.ie

Bohemians are delighted to secure the services of midfielder Eoin Wearen for another season. The former West Ham youth re-joined the club in July of this year after a short spell at Sligo Rovers and is the latest player to re-sign for the 2016 league campaign, which kicks off on Friday 4th March.

Bohemians are delighted to announce the signings of Ayman Ben Mohamed, 20, from Longford Town and Kurtis Byrne, 25, from Dundalk.

Winger Adam Evans, 21, has also re-signed for 2016 for his third season at Dalymount Park.

MEMBERS’ BAR, DALYMOUNT PARK, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18th, 7pm

“Dalymount Park – the Home of Irish Football” will be launched tonight in the Members’ Bar by Minister for Sport Paschal Donohoe and Ireland legend John Giles.

“Dalymount Park is and forever will be the true historic home of Irish football. As a football man, it means a lot to me, and I know it means a huge amount to Irish football fans throughout the country.” – John Giles

Dalymount Park: The Home of Irish Football is a lovingly crafted pictorial history of one of Dublin’s most treasured landmarks, put together by journalist and lifelong League of Ireland supporter Colin White.

Spanning twelve decades, the book contains fantastic photographs and magic memories from the stadium’s 125-year existence.

Irish legend John Giles, a man who stood in the terraces as a boy watching his heroes gracing the turf at ‘Dalyer’, has penned a heartfelt foreword – a love letter to the place where he began his international career.

The split between the footballing associations of the FAI and the IFA has had many consequences for football on our island, many hours have been whiled away with “what if” scenarios with barflies imagining an Irish side of the 60’s featuring the likes of John Giles and George Best. Another less discussed consequence of the split between the two associations was for many the loss of any sense of identity with the all Ireland side that had competed from the 1880’s through to 1921. Any connection with the history of this 32 county team has for most football fans in the Republic, (and indeed some in the North) been severed and there is little sense of identification with the players and their achievements pre-1921.

I for one think that this is a great pity, it ignores the history of the sport and the rich and interesting personal stories of those involved. It also means modern fans in the Republic often feel little pride or connection to the victory by a truly representative Irish team in the Home Nations Championship of 1914. At the time the Home Nations Championship was viewed, in the British Isles at least, as the foremost International football competition in the world with the winners rating themselves as the best international side in the world. While this is obviously an isolated and arrogant viewpoint it is reasonable to say that the winners could legitimately claim to be among the very best international sides in the world.

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