I was talking with my granda about football way back when. He said Drumcodra(or something like that) where a fine team. Has anyone got any background on this club and what happened to them?
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Drumcondra were formally a league club and former inhabitants of Tolka. They went out of business many moons ago. 72 maybe. They joined with Home Farm (rough end of the deal afaik, who was involved in this? Kilcoynes?? ) when they went out of business. They won a few league titles and played in Europe. Still feature in one of the junior leagues nowadays. Or LSL maybe. Not sure
EDIT: The jersey in my avatar was a tribute to Drums to try intice some of their fans to games btw
Heres a link from wikpedia on Drums
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumcondra_F.C.
Now they have schoolboy teams playing in Clonturk Pk (directly opp. Tolka Pk) and a team in the LSL. Currently, the LSL team play their home games in Morton Stadium
McShels is right. Club still going strong albeit at intermediate level. They reached the third round of the FAI Cup three years ago, beated by UCD i think. They won the LOI 5 times and the FAI Cup 5 times.
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My Grandfather played for them back in the 30's i think it was. Dom Healy was his name. I don't actually know a huge amount about them but ive seen some medals about the house belonging to him and theres a photo from a newspaper from 1935.
There is a Drumcondra in LSL Div 1A and a Drumcondra Athletic in LSL Div 1B.
I was at a Rathcoole Boys v Drums Ath game and i got talking to a man there. He claims that Drums Ath are the 'REAL' Drumcondra. Im not sure if thats 100% true or not but he did seem passionate about what he was tellin me.
Fair enough maybe the old timer had his wires crossed. where do Drumcondra FC play these days?
Get a hold of a copy of "Who Stole Our Game" - The Fall and Fall of Irish Soccer by Daire Whelan.
Good account of the decline of the League and a good chapter or two on the Drums - Rovers rivalry from way back when
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My father was a big drums fan. Went on to be a shels fan. My dad often mentioned how he left a Drums game ( this would have been the 50s I think) and they were 3-0 up at half time against I THINK Shams, and he went to watch Shels play cos that game was over, only to find Rovers beat them 4-3 in the end. I never seen a League of Ireland Drums game. They were merged with Home Farm in 71-72 and chanegd to Home Famr Drumcondra FC but changed back the next season to just Home Farm. But I am sure the wiki says that. I just heard this so many time growing up. Now even sure its true
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Drums play in Morton Stadium.
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Was in dublin for an interview yesterday and met a taxi driver who played for them..name was pat symth i think! He played in most grounds in ireland.
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Didn't Drumcondra used to get savage crowds? They were the main northside club and Rovers the main southsiders. The derbies were massive games with massive crowds. In short, massive.
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Maybe the goalkeepers name was MICK Smyth?
The guy you were talking to was probably Tim Grace. He's an uncle of the two goalkeeping brothers Jim and John Grace. He lives in Drumcondra and set up Drumcondra Ath about 15 years ago. I think he considers them the "real" Drumcondra because they train and play in Drumcondra whereas the other Drums play in Santry. John Grace played in goal for their first team for a few seasons, think he might have retired now.
I went to many Drums vs Rovers games. Crowds weren't any bigger than for the Shels vs Rovers games. No fear of getting crushed to death but they were sizeable enough. I think they used to play in sky blue jerseys if memory serves me right.
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