The very beginning...
“How is the football going now?”
“Ach all right but there be’s wile crowds there and its hard to get on the team.”
“Noel’s doing well on the minors?”
“Aye he is but there’s a crowd of us over minor age that have no chance of getting on to the senior team.”
“That’s great to hear that the young lads are showing such an interest.”
“ Aw there’s plenty of interest all right but there’s that many the half of them never gets a game.”
“Could you not field two teams?”
“I don’t know but a crowd of us Loughmacrory boys play among ourselves nearly every evening down in the Glen and its always better craic”
“Why don’t yis form a team of your own down in this end of the parish and then there would be football for everybody?”
“Sure we know nothin’ about running a team.”
“Well did yis never think of forming a club of your own and trying to get registered? Would you have enough players to make a team here in Loughmacrory?”
“Awe we would surely. Do you think we really could form our own club?”
“I see no reason why not.”
The above is a transcript of a conversation that took place between John Conway of Milltown and Charles Gallagher of the Glen at the back stand of Loughmacrory Alley one evening in the summer of 1972. And so the seed was sown which was soon to bear fruit - the formation of a new Gaelic Football club - St Teresa’s GFC, Loughmacrory.
But as all good farmers and gardeners know sowing a seed is not sufficient to guarantee of a fruitful crop. After the sowing the seed needs much care and attention if it is to flourish and bear fruit. Thankfully that seed was well tended to and has continued to grow and produce many bumper crops over the intervening 32 years...
...more to follow on the formation of the club.
