GLENTHORN CELTIC FEB 2002

GLENTHORN Celtic


Glenthorn Celtic's hopes of promotion from AUL 2A received a boost with the recent signing of Alan Falvey, the ex Rockmount captain and winner of an intermediate cup medal. Twenty seven year old Falvey, just back from a sojourn in Australia, was signed up by his older brother Troy, the Glenthorn manager. Troy is delighted the brother has signed for the season: "Hopefully Alan and club captain Colin Dorney and another few will do the business for us this year."



One guy already doing the business for Celtic is striker Micky Forde. Micky was top scorer last season with 26 and so far this season he has bagged an impressive 18. Darren Kennefick has assisted in quite a few of Forde's goals and has helped himself to eight. Secretary Eric Lynch is hoping that the strikers keep it up and that Glenthorn will be promoted at the end of the season having just missed out last term when they lost a play-off with Glanworth Utd.



Lynch says the priority this year is promotion to 1st division football: "The lead in 2A has changed hands four times so each of the leading sides has had a taste of what it is like. There are only a couple of points between first and fourth. The tussle between ourselves, Churchview, Castleview and Celtic United, from here to the end of the season should be very interesting."



Lynch is a key back with the side and was delighted to see fellow defenders Brian Carr and Kieran Evans back from injury. Recent signing Alan Vaughan is also doing his bit at the back.



The A team is picked from: Darren Walsh, Eric Lynch, Alan Vaughan, Adrian O'Driscoll, Paul Burke, Brian Carr, Kieran Evans, Alan Kennefick, Graham Kennefick, Johnny McGrath, Alan Falvey, Colin Dorney(captain),Kenneth Hackett, Dave Barrett, Mark O'Regan, Mickey Forde, Darren Kennefick.



Scoring seems to run in Forde family for Colm Forde, younger brother of Micky, is the top scorer with third division Glenthorn Celtic B; Coachford hot shot Fintan is another brother. Colm has netted 16 for Celtic this season. The B team, who are enjoying quite a run in the AOH, are managed by Gavin Mulcahy and trained by Donal O'Donovan (who also runs an underage hurling team for Glen Rovers).



Glenthorn, one of many clubs who gave the thumbs down to summer football in the recent AUL internet poll, are run by Mark Kanlin (chairman), Eric Lynch (secretary), Rory Owens (treasurer), Troy Falvey (vice-chairman), Robert Cronin (PRO).