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FAI Club of the Month Award

On Thursday 11th February 2010, Blessington Football Club were awarded FAI Club of the Month at a presentation in City West Hotel. FAI President David Blood praised Blessington FC for their ongoing developments within the club and our dedication to providing the best facilities possible for our players and community. This is truly a fantastic achievement for all players, members and supporters of Blessington FC & indeed for our whole Community. It gives our club national recognition for all the hard work that is going into our club at grass roots and senior level. This latest award follows on from Blessington FC being voted South Dublin Football League Club of the Year for 2009. Blessington FC has now been selected to compete for FAI Club of the year. This award will be presented in Whites Hotel Wexford this August at the FAI annual general meeting. We hope to do Blessington proud again. Thanks again to all our committee members, team managers, players & supporters for their continued efforts in putting our Club and Town on the football map. Report on FAI website

 

 

We are pleased to announce that we have just recently (March 2010) signed a new sponsorship deal with Tulfarris Hotel. As part of this deal we are delighted to advise that all Blessington FC members can avail of a 10% discount on bookings made for Mother's Day Lunch:-

 

Celebrate Mother’s Day – Sunday the 14th of March

Spoil your mother and treat her to lunch in the Lime Tree Restaurant at Tulfarris Hotel and Golf Resort.

Open from 13.00 – 17.00

Two Course Lunch - €21 - 3 Course Lunch - €26

To book call:       045 867600

 

Now taking Bookings for Communions and Confirmations:

Looking for somewhere special to celebrate your child’s big day

Two Course Lunch - €21 - 3 Course Lunch - €26

Children’s menu from €5

For bookings please call: 045 867600

 

Also our members might be interested to know that Tulfarris are holding a Recruitment Open Day on Sunday 21st March from 15.00 - 18.00 recruiting for the following positions:

Food and Beverage Staff (applicants must be the legal age to serve alcohol for these positions)

Accommodation Assistants

Reception Staff

Golf Shop Attendants

Kitchen Staff

 

Interviews will take place on the day - please bring your C.V on the day.

 

Dates for your Diary 

Fri 26th March '10: Our Annual Spring Race-night will take place in The Lakes. If you would like to sponsor a race at a cost of just €100 please contact any Committee member. Also horses for sale at a cost of €10 each. Please download your race sheet here

Mon 12th April '10: Next full Committee meeting @ earlier time of 7.30pm in Crosschapel

June '10: Watch out for our World Cup competition - please keep tuned for more details . . . . .

Senior Teams in Europe 

Blessington FC Senior teams are off on another European trip, as they visit Frankfurt, Germany at Easter. The group leave on Good Friday morning 2nd April, returning late on Easter Monday, 5th. They plan to play 2 friendly games against local opposition, and take in the Bundesliga game between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen. More details to follow later.

 

South Dublin Football League Club of the Year 2009

We are extremely proud to announce that Blessington AFC were recently awarded SDFL Club of the Year for 2009. To be chosen as Number One from over 60 clubs playing in the SDFL is a fantastic achievement & just reward for all the hard work being done by all our committee, managers & members. Keep up the good work & we will continue to grow our club and improve facilities for all. 

 

 

 

Update on Crosschapel

We're glad to report that the grass is growing well as can be seen from the photos below. Our Club Room was freshly painted & a new lino floor was laid - we now hold all our club / committee meetings on-site. Also work is on-going on the new dressing rooms - indeed some of them are currently in use.

 

BEFORE - May '09 

DURING (work) - June '09 

 

 

 

 

 

AFTER - Sept '09 

 

 

Welcome to the website of Blessington Association Football Club. This coming season (2009-10) promises to be a historic one for our club, as we finally move into at our new facilities at Crosschapel. After a long number of years work behind the scenes, finally we are beginning to see the fruits of our labour !! It is our intention to have all our 11 a-side teams playing here in Jan 2010. We will continue to play our small-sided games (up to Under 10) and our Sunday morning academy in The Community College, as this location suits better for kids of that younger age.

 

 

Since the end of May when we took delivery of our large pre-fab building - school classes which we intend turning into 6 new changing rooms – work has been ongoing. On Friday 22nd May our electricity supply was turned on. We now have a freshly cleaned & painted club room where we recently held our successful AGM in June. In May we drilled down 510 feet to source our own water supply, which will be used to irrigate the new pitches and also for toilet and shower facilities. Rumours that this is the source for our bottled water are not true !!

 

Our Club Room

 

 

These will be Dressing Rooms - I promise !!

 

 

 

Work commenced in early June on the actual pitches – we will have 2 new properly drained full sized pitches, which will complement the current pitch. Phase 2 of our project will be the resurfacing of the third pitch as well as developing some other areas for training facilities. We all look forward to seeing all our teams playing on top quality pitches later this season.

 

As I’m sure you can appreciate a development of this scale is very costly. We have taken out a substantial loan from our local Credit Union and we will be appealing to all our members and the local community to support us in our various fund-raising events over the next couple of years. The quicker we pay this back the sooner we can move onto Phase 2. If anyone has any ideas for us in this regard, we would be delighted to hear from you – please just contact any of our committee members.

We are the only soccer club within an 8 mile radius of the town. Currently we have almost 400 members, making us the largest football club of any code in West Wicklow - I don't think the group of lads that started a soccer team back in 1968 could have foreseen such a growth over the last 40 years. Next season we expect to have have 19 juvenile teams, 2 senior teams & a ladies team representing our area in their various leagues from under-7 upwards. We also run a weekly academy for approximately 70 boys and girls in the 5 to 7 year-old age bracket (every Sunday morning at The Community College at 11am - please feel free to come along).

As you can appreciate it is very challenging (not to mention expensive) to keep a club of this size functioning correctly. We would like to thank all our sponsors, advertisers and especially all the parents who continue to help us keep our young people busy and active through sport, which is more relevant now in this era of increasing negative temptations. It also cannot be overstated the positive impact the involvement in team sports has on the overall development of young people.

If you feel you can help out in way, we would be delighted if you could contact any of the committee members.