THANK YOU

I wish to thank the following people who assisted me in some way or other along the way to putting this publication together: Anne Soye, Eugene Hoey, Jack Wilson, Joe Barnes, Joey Dunne, Kitty Mellen, Michael Kearns, Marie Sheridan and Sabrina Davis, Mick McCarthy, Mick Smyth, Ossie Nash, Paddy Ambrose (R.I.P), Robert Kelly, Ronnie Nolan, Sean Ryan, Sonny O’Reilly, Tony Ennis and Tony Maguire.

Also I wish to acknowledge the following for many of the photographs contained in the book: Bobby Best, Carlo Ziliami, Jim Cashman, Independent Newspapers, Inpho, Irish Times, Noel Horgan, Pat Brady, Peter Hughes, Sportsfile. Every effort has been made to credit the various sources.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this book in sending in messages of congratulations to the club in our centenary year. And thank you to our advertisers for helping making publication possible.

Thanks also to Joe Colwell, the current chairman of Shamrock Rovers and not forgetting the founder members of our club, without their vision and indeed at times perseverance it would never have all fallen into place.

If I left anybody out it is unintentional but it has taken a long time to put the book together and I have tried my best to remember everyone who gave me assistance along the way.

ROBERT GOGGINS

Dedicated to my late dad Patrick – he loved the game

DESIGN & LAYOUT: FERGAL NORRISPRINTING: KILKENNY PEOPLE
© ROBERT GOGGINS 2002

Is Mór Linn Peil na hÉireann

Congratulations to Shamrock Rovers Football Club on your centenary …

… Wishing you all the best in your next one hundred years

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