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    Post Connacht / West History

    The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.

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    Stumbled on site myself,
    Great history and whoever is behind it deserves a pat on the back.
    I myself have nearly got a correct list of all finalists for Connacht Junior finals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A face View Post
    Link is now dead

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    Quote Originally Posted by littlebray View Post
    Link is now dead
    Ah, the wonders of the internet!

    http://web.archive.org/web/201311210...net/index.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBoss View Post
    Jaysus that's a brilliant website. Will have to grab the relevant info before it disappears from web archive too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBoss View Post
    Didn't take you long! Maybe I gave up too easily ...

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    Someone has helped by posting in Wikipedia details of Connacht junior cup finals

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    You may be interested in research by Paul Gunning published last year about soccer in Connacht. It is rather idiosyncratically entitled Association Football in the Shamrock Shire’s Hy Brasil: The ‘Socker’ Code in Connacht, 1879–1906 and written in rather unusual style, but it presents clear evidence of very early association football in Sligo: a 'first phase' from 1879-82 and then again from 1887.

    Very significant stuff. Unfortunately if you don't have access to the Soccer & Society journal there is a fee to read it.

    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2016.1230346?journalCode=fsas20


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    Re last post, for those interested in early soccer history in Ireland will find this a very interesting read.

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