Dunboyne afc pele biography

Dunboyne is a town in Meath, centred on the crossroads formed by the R156 regional road and the old Maynooth Road (formerly designated R157).

History

Dunboyne Castle

Dunboyne Castle, originally a castle was built as a seat for a branch of the Butler dynasty, the Lords Dunboyne. It later passed to the Mangan family and was the seat of Simon Mangan, HM Lieutenant for County Meath in the 1890s and 1900s.

The house was sold in 1950 and became the Good Shepherd convent, in which nuns used to live and operate a mother and baby home, The Ard Mhuire mother and baby home in Dunboyne was opened by the sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1955. It closed in 1991. A partial amount of the building had been dismantled. In 2006, the convent was sold and converted into a hotel.^[2]

• Archibald Hamilton father of William Rowan Hamilton was of the Hamilton family of Dunboyne. They were once large landowners in the town.

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  History

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Dunboyne remembers Pele opening clubhouse

"Young players and parents still take pictures of the plaque and ask if that is the real Pele that officially opened the clubhouse," said the former chair of the Meath football club that the legendary Brazilian footballer visited in 2009.

Jake Robinson described Pele as an 'out and out gent' in paying tribute to one of the world's greatest footballers who passed away on Thursday at the age of 82.

 

Pele who is the only player in history to win three World Cups died at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo after a battle with cancer.

 

Meath soccer club, Dunboyne AFC can claim the rare honour of Pele officially opening their clubhouse and pitches on November 26th, 2009 because it was named FAI Club of the Year for that year.

 

"When we were announced as club of the year at a ceremony in Monaghan, then FAI CEO John Delaney said we would get an extra bonus of Pele visiting us," he said.

 

"We thought, yeah right!  We were sure it was a joke but it seemed to get more real when the emails started to come through.

 

"Eugene Dowling at the time did a lot of the organising and I don't think he would do it again because there was that much wor