For the fourth in this series on our league or cup winning managers of the past four decades, we concentrate on Tommy Cassidy For this piece, spoke to Jim Cleary, captain during the Cassidy era, for some of his insider’s thoughts on the period. A full interview with John on his Glentoran career will start here next week.
With the slight reduction in COVID-19 restrictions, we can now bring you the results of the March and April draws for the Glentoran 200 Club. Apologies for the delay.
May result will follow shortly and June will return to being drawn in the normal timescale (restrictions permitting).
Glentoran Gazette contributor and former editor, John Grayden, first saw the Glens play in May, 1959. In this series he picks imaginary sides from throughout the years in a random selection of categories. A few are factual while most are subjective and by no means definitive. While he has seen most of the players in action, a few from earlier eras are included due to their contribution to the club’s history.
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with former Glentoran players and managers where they talk about a photograph that means a lot to them. Some will be reproduced from a series written by Brian McClelland for the Glentoran Gazette in the mid-1990s with other, newer stories we will be writing over the next few weeks. This one was published in the Gazette when legendary Northern Ireland and Everton Manager Billy Bingham spoke to Brian about his Glentoran days.
In this new series we plan to bring extended interviews with some of Glentoran’s greatest ever players, speaking to Media Director Ian Clarke about many interesting aspects of their long, trophy laden careers with the Glens.
After Roy Coyle went, Paul Millar came in as manager. How did that impact your game?
Glentoran Gazette contributor and former editor, John Grayden, first saw the Glens play in May, 1959. In this series he picks imaginary sides from throughout the years in a random selection of categories. A few are factual while most are subjective and by no means definitive. While he has seen the majority of the players in action, some from other eras are included because of their contribution to the club’s history.
In this new series we plan to bring extended interviews with some of Glentoran’s greatest ever players, speaking to Media Director Ian Clarke about many interesting aspects of their long, trophy laden careers with the Glens.
Marcus and Aimee Kane's appeal for Breavement Care at RVH Maternity took another leap this week with an incredible donation of £1,180 from our good friends and partner, Bloomfield Fuels. It is truly outstanding to see the East Belfast community pull together so well for this very worthy cause!
This is the seventh in a series where notable Glentoran players of the past name the team they would pick from the players they played alongside during their careers in the Irish League.
Happy 89th birthday today (17th June) to lifelong Glenman Jim Hanna.
Jim has been active in the running of the Hillfoot Glentoran Supporters Club for over 50 years - and still is. Jimmy still religiously follows the Glens home and away, and as a Glentoran Vice President can be seen in his scarf in the Directors' Box at every home match.
