Category: Away Days
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Mom’s Spaghetti
Detroit City, 20th March 2022. Having capped off our return to play post the Covid Pandemic in 2021, unbeaten, along with our extremely successful “Captains awards Weekend” in Malaga, Spain in early December, it was time for the Ballybrack Seagulls to dust off the passports again and head Stateside to pick up on a trip […]
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The only way is…Winning!
Southend-on-Sea, 27th November, 2021. Following our extremely successful trip to Naples, where the Ballybrack Seagulls defeated the Caserta Lions, it was time to set out sights on our next adventure. So the Ballybrack Seagulls, aka the “Neapolitan Dynamites”, set themselves up for a first and “The Only Way” that could be done, was for the […]
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Boopa-dee
Naples, 17th October 2021. Wow, who would have thought what was to follow as the Ballybrack Seagulls departed Daxing Airport, Beijing, on the 6th of November 2019? The worldwide “China Crisis”, saw Football suspended, Airlines collapsing, economies in turmoil, worldwide travel suspended and international lockdowns a common conversational piece on all forms of news outlets. […]
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Nine Million Bicycles
Beijing, 3rd November 2019. Having scoured through two continents by this stage, it was time for the Ballybrack Seagulls to spread the wings and travel further afield. The Seagulls were about to embark on their longest long haul trip to date and venture to the “Country of the Dragon” and the continent of Asia to […]
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FOXy in USA
Connecticut, 10th March 2019. Having reach our “Valhalla” following our visit to Iceland, it was time for the Ballybrack Seagulls to reach out to the Irish diaspora and connect with the descendants of Irish people who live outside the island of Ireland. Ireland has long suffered the curse of emigration from her lands with many […]
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Nice Geezers
Reykjavík, 10th November 2018. The Ballybrack Seagulls mini tour of continental Europe has seen them soar through the Swiss Alps on route to the Tulip fields of Amsterdam before laying praise at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. It was now time for the Seagulls to dig deep into their very own Norse DNA […]
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Messi in Spain
Barcelona, 8th March 2018. On the back of the their Dutch Master Class, it was time for the Ballybrack Seagulls to take flight once again. Time to visit a city that was portraying its self as the new home of “Total Football”. Time to visit BARCELONA! Match Day 4 saw a flock of Seagulls travel in […]
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Dutch Gold
Amsterdam, 4th November 2017. With the Seagulls having soared high through the Swiss Alps it was time to find our next destination to travel to. We needed a place that could match the “high” of the Swiss Alps but also keep us level grounded. Where could we possibly go that could offer us this? Yes, […]
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Pain in the Toblerone
Sass-Fee, 19th August 2016. Having took a Seagull size bite out of the Big Apple, the Ballybrack Seagulls set their sights on a new adventure. Following on from the success of the NYC trip, we needed to aim high and higher it was! Match day two saw the Ballybrack Seagulls head for dizzy heights of […]
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The Big Apple
New York City, 16th March 2016. On a balmy Wednesday evening in mid July 2015, a group of Ballybrack Seagulls gathered at Wesley College for what was to be the start of a weekly get together for a 7 a side Football game. As that first night of Football got under way, nobody there could […]