I came across this picture on Facebook. It seems to show most of The Dubliners kitted out before a football game.
Can anyone give any more background information?
KBranno reckons it could be taken in Tolka Park.
February 13, 2012 by Sam
I came across this picture on Facebook. It seems to show most of The Dubliners kitted out before a football game.
Can anyone give any more background information?
KBranno reckons it could be taken in Tolka Park.
Yep, pretty sure that’s Tolka… unless another ground has an identical end-of-terrace house and tree in the background!
looks like an all-star charity line up in Tolka around ’65/6/7 -ish!
Dickie Rock and Butch Moore and Brendan O’Brien and Earl Gill are in it.
VM
Centre, front – Sean Dunphy.
Think it’s one of the Jimmy McGee allstars matches. I’m sure there’s a couple of sports commentators from the time on the team. Earl Gill is far right bottom.Think I have list of names somewhere i’ll try root out!
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/Jimmy_Magee.htm
On June 6th 1966, the Jimmy Magee All Stars played their very first game. The idea was to play a fun match between the country’s best known Showband stars at the time (Jimmy Magee All Stars) and a local team. After the huge success of that first match which raised £800 for charity, the All Stars continued to play celebrity fun matches for charities in every county in Ireland over the following thirty one year