for me it has to be killesters performance against sligo ...2 great performances from the aul side ...any other teams that spring 2 mind...did ashtown beat derry 1 year?
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for me it has to be killesters performance against sligo ...2 great performances from the aul side ...any other teams that spring 2 mind...did ashtown beat derry 1 year?
who were the non-league team that made it to the 1/4 or semi finals a year or 2 back?
*Cue Derry fans looking sheepishly at their shoelaces*
St Francis
Ashtown Villa beat Dundalk and Derry two rounds in a row one year. Back when both would've been top four teamsQuote:
Originally Posted by mr.brightside
Pats (55 years) and Cork (22 years) are the only club not to have been knocked out by non league opposition.
[QUOTE=Dodge;581024]Ashtown Villa beat Dundalk and Derry two rounds in a row one year. Back when both would've been top four teams
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Then lost to Kilkenny 1-0 in the QF!! What a bummer that was at the time i can tell you!:(
Koh
St Francis by a margin in recent times anyway. UNlikely to be achieved again.
IN terms of a one off match, Ashtown Villa beating the treble winning Derry City team managed by Jim McLaughlin which basically ended his Derry career.
*Cough* :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Kildare also. And various incarnations of Cork football were knocked out by non-league sides back in the day (Fordsons in '37 for one, I think)
How do you beat Dundalk and Derry and then lose to Kilkenny?! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by dvb
St Francis beat league teams all the way to the '91 final I think - Newcastlewest, Bohs, Kilkenny (?)
am i right in sayin bluebell beat sligo down there 1 year ...and saint kevins held derry and wer beaten by an own goal at the death....of course has 2 be st francis the year they got 2 the final ...what a side as well
They actually beat Cobh in the quarter final in what I think may have been Keanes last match before leaving for Notts Forest. Then they accounted for bohs 1-0 in the semi if i remember correctly. An unbelievable achievement probably unique for anywhere in Europe at the time!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Pats beating the cup holders Shamrock in 1948 must be the best performance.
Man, that is some club. What a fine cup tradition they have - new contenders for the title "Cup Specialists"...:confused: :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Apologies to all the UCDD fans.
And I concur Jerry, I concur
Skerries Town beat Monaghan Utd 1:0 in 2003 before losing to Bohes in the 3rd Round
Great result for the Intermediate club
Fairview Rangers (Limerick) Hammerd Dublin City 4 1 a few years back in the cup.
don't think so lads!!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
i am happy to report that Galway United defeated the cup specialists Shamrock Rovers in the 1991 Final with a cracking late late Johnny Glen goal! :D :D
Although we did face non-league St. James Gate in the Semi Final in Tolka and won 3-1 if memory serves me correctly.
Man, what a shame that was - conceding to Dublin City that is :ball:Quote:
Originally Posted by gael353
Doh! Wouldn't mind, but I was at it and all!Quote:
Originally Posted by galwayhoop
Any Cup after '84 doesn't count anyway.
Shamrock Rovers made the final in 1922 as a non-league side, and only lost to double-winners St James's Gate 1-0 after a replay. So the Hoops were the first giant-killers!
Mind you, non-league Alton United from Belfast went and won the FAI Cup a couple of years later.
For years I kept the newspaper clipping describing Dalkey's defeat of Limerick in the FAI cup, some time in the 1970s
Didn't one of the Blanch/Clonsilla clubs get a cup run a few years back? St. Mochtas maybe?