Celtic Football Raffle

Celtic Football Signed by The Team in 1998

Life-long Celtic fans Frank Brennan, Liam Gaynor and Dessie Hanks have had the signed ball for more than 20 years after winning the prized possession after cheering their team on to victory against St Johnstone to stop their arch-rival Glasgow Rangers from becoming champions for the tenth time in a row.

The three local men have  donated the ball that is signed by the players including:

Henrik Larrson 

Alan Stubbs

Tom Boyd

Jonathan Gould

 Bobby Petta

Paul Lambert

Craig Burley

Ľubo Moravčík

In 1998 the three lads headed to Glasgow for the Celtic match against St Johnstone.

Celtic needed to win the game to prevent their arch-rival Rangers from becoming champions for the tenth time in a row.

Celtic won two nil in that famous match.

It was a very important game that went down in history.

There were five signed balls as prizes in a raffle for fans after the game and Frank, Liam and Dessie were lucky enough to win one of them.

After their team winning the game and them getting the signed ball there was plenty of celebrating done by the lads.

  Not only did they get the ball back to Dundalk safely, they have looked after it for over 20 years, and kindly donated it to SOSAD for a fundraising raffle.

And now one lucky soccer fan will be in with a chance of winning the signed Celtic ball.

The raffle is sponsored by PMK Civil Engineering, 

PMK in Glasgow, owned by Paul and Kevin Docherty and Paul O’Brien, who have been so supportive of SOSAD over the years and we really appreciate it.

We are so grateful to  Frank Brennan, Liam Gaynor and Dessie Hanks for donating the ball to us and to PMK for sponsoring the raffle

Another local man Bernard Grey has also donated old Celtic programmes to us to be included in the raffle, we have 50 old Celtic programmes which will be given to runners up in the raffle. 

The generous donation of the signed Celtic ball is very much needed to raise money for the local charity due to the Covid-19 pandemic putting a stop to fundraising events.

Unfortunately, the pandemic has been tough for a lot of people and for some their mental health is deteriorating in the current situation.

We have been able to keep going throughout the restrictions and keep our 24 helpline up and running.

But the restrictions have affected our usual fundraising events, so we are very grateful to be given this signed Celtic ball to raffle.