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Star of the Sea 16:14 - Oct 23 with 516 views

Watched this documentary on the Star of the Sea football club in Belfast during the troubles.

https://www.tg4.ie/en/informat

Amazing insight into a football team with players from both sides of the sectarian devide and how the conflict affected the players and their families. In amazing personal testaments of mainly pain and grief on both sides, Raymond McCords story stands out.

https://www.thejournal.ie/star

This is their story from an earlier documentary ( made in 1983, 15 years before the Good Friday Agreement ).

Star of the Sea on 16:59 - Oct 23 with 407 views

Perublue

Thanks, it reminded me to catch up on this I’d been meaning to read for ages … it’s a different story of course but certainly worth a read.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/foot

Poll:

Should Burns or Chaplin now replace the Shefki/Pablo TWTD question of yore ?

Star of the Sea on 18:02 - Oct 23 with 349 views

eirannach_gorm

Star of the Sea on 16:59 - Oct 23 by Perublue
Thanks, it reminded me to catch up on this I’d been meaning to read for ages … it’s a different story of course but certainly worth a read. https://www.bbc.com/sport/foot

I spotted that myself and was reminded of it when viewing the documentary. Different but essentially the same. The enormous power of togetherness that can be created by a football team is amazing. What a shame we can't have a MLA football team in Northern Ireland or a Knesset team in Israel.

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