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Irish Independent
25-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
North Dublin Football club in need of ‘shooting practice' after ball ends up on Welsh beach
Last weekend, Andrew Jones and his son, Celyn, stumbled across the battered ball on Porth y Nant beach. The ball had 'Finglas United U12,' written on it. Andrew posted a picture of the ball on Facebook and said: 'Celyn and I went for a wander across the fields to Porth y Nant this afternoon where we found a football that belongs to Finglas United Youth FC under 12s from Dublin across the water in Ireland. 'If you want your ball back you are welcome to come and collect it from us.' Finglas United Youth FC replied: 'Thanks for finding our ball I think a bit of shooting practice is in order for our under 12 team. 'We have two of our teams sailing from Holyhead tomorrow we could swing by and pick it up.' Both Andrew and Director of Football Liam Tiernan spoke about the interaction on FM104. "I didn't realise until we left the beach that there was writing on the ball. I thought, oh, where's that?' Andrew said. 'Because Finglas is very similar to a Welsh word for a sort of blue border. I thought, 'Oh, is that in Wales? Where's that, I've not heard of that?' I googled it, and realised it was in Dublin." The club's Director of Football Liam Tiernan said that they're hoping to get it back soon. 'With the cost of living these days, I think every little helps. It wouldn't be a bad thing to get it back. "We got in contact with Andrew through Facebook yesterday, and we've agreed to meet up sometime in the next couple of weeks. 'We're always losing balls. On matchdays on the weekends, one or two balls will go missing. But I don't think anyone's putting their hands up for this one now, with the ball making it to Wales."
BBC News
23-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
12-year-old finds long lost football from Ireland on Welsh beach
Have you ever found something strange whilst walking on the beach?12-year-old Celyn was searching for driftwood on his local beach in Anglesey with his dad Andrew when he found a football that was a long way from football had writing on it to say who it belonged to - the under-12s side from Finglas United Youth FC, who are based all the way over in Dublin, likely that the football had travelled over 80 miles across the Irish Sea - but it's still a mystery as to how it got there in the first place. Speaking to Newsround, Celyn said that he was "very shocked" to find the mystery football at his local beach on Easter Sunday."I was at the rock pools with my dad, who booted a football across the beach."We played with it for a bit and then saw the name of a football team on it called Finglas United. We went to search it up when we had a signal, and it turns out it was a football team from Dublin."Celyn's dad Andrew works on a campsite, and, writing on social media, he joked with Finglas United that "if you want your ball back, you are welcome to come and collect it from us". The football team had fun on their own social media post, writing that their under-12s may need some practice when trying to score goals. Finglas United said: "There is missing the target, and then there is the football ending up in Wales missing the target!"Speaking to the BBC, Celyn's dad Andrew said: "I wouldn't like to think how long it had been in the sea.... we've found ropes and things like that washed up before but never a football."Only time will tell if the mystery of the missing football from Ireland ever gets solved... and if the team will ever get reunited with it.
