At Saturday night's Ballymac GSC Annual Christmas Dinner and Dance in the Ballymac Clubrooms, the club presented a cheque for £1,500 to representatives of the club's chosen chartity for last season, Dementia NI.
Great work and gesture from the Ballymac members.
Top Photograph: Ballymac GSC member Roy Tracey presents the cheque to Thomas & Alison Batchelor from Dementia NI. Roy is also a Glentoran season ticket holder.
Northern Ireland Women’s Player of the Year, Demi Vance, has joined Rangers on an 18-month contract.
Demi (28) has had an incredible career so far with Glentoran Women. She joined the club as a 16-year old and has spent her whole career with the club, apart from a spell playing in Western Australia. As a goalscoring midfielder has won an exceptional trophy haul of 6 league titles, 7 league cups and 6 Irish cups. This year’s NIPOTY award was the second time she has been honoured by the league. Demi also has 63 senior caps for Northern Ireland, scoring 3 goals for her country.
An email was sent to GFC1882 shareholders on Sunday evening, 15th December, but we understand that a number of these have gone into shareholders' junk mail. If you have not received this email please check your spam folder in the first instance or contact us at shareregister@glentoran.com. Would all shareholders also ensure that your contact details, both postal address and email, are up to date and if there are any changes please let us know.
Many thanks.
A second half equaliser from, the in-form Robbie McDaid gave Glentoran a point today at home over Crusaders. A point was the very least the Glens deserved from the match, as we extended our unbeaten Danske Bank Premiership run to nine matches.
The Glentoran Superstore's opening hours for December are as follows:
Friday 13th 3PM - 6PM
Saturday 14th 9:30am - 4:30pm
Sunday 15th 1pm-5pm
Tuesday 17th 4pm-8pm
Thursday 19th 1pm-8pm
Saturday 21st 9:30am - 12:30pm
Sunday 22nd 1pm-5pm
Monday 23rd 1pm-7pm
Tuesday 24th 9am - 12 midday
A big game at the Oval tomorrow as the Glens bid to maintain their unbeaten run and another bumper edition of your multi-award winning Glentoran Gazette. Roy Downes looks back to Glentoran Cricket Club (yes, you read that right), in the latest in the “For King And Country” series Brian McClelland tells the story of Dave “Boy” Martin and John Grayden reflects on how greater IFA backing for the local game could reap benefits at international level. This week’s interviews are with goal scorer supreme Gary Blackledge and flying winger Jonny Frazer plus top-class photos from Tommy Sewell and a
Saturday 14th December 2019 Kick-off 3.00pm
On Saturday we look to continue our current run as the league’s form team with the visit of Crusaders to East Belfast.
We’re much closer to Crusaders than we have been at this stage of the season for some years. Four points behind with a game in hand. So this is a very meaningful fixture for both clubs.
On Sunday 8th December, players from Glentoran, Glentoran Women, and volunters from within the club and support, held a sleepover at the Oval in aid of the 2019 Glentoran Christmas Appeal for the Homeless.
Since 2013, Glentoran Football Club has implemented a Christmas appeal to provide gifts, food, clothes and other necessities for members of the homeless community in Belfast and for pensioners and lower income families within the club’s home of East Belfast.
With December now underway, the core events of the seventh Glentoran FC Christmas Homeless Appeal are imminent. Since 2013, Glentoran Football Club has implemented a Christmas appeal to provide gifts, food, clothes and other necessities for members of the homeless community in Belfast and for pensioners and lower income families within the club’s home of East Belfast.
Events supporting the appeal this month are:
We are pleased to announce that tickets for our Boxing Day fixture against Linfield will be available for purchase online from 4pm on Thursday at glentoran.com/tickets
