Irish Iron members with Clifford after the Yeovil game at Glanford Park.
On the way home at Doncaster airport we met the Yeovil town Irish SC !!!!

Irish Iron newsletter 2008/09

You can now download the online PDF version of the Irish Iron 2008/09 newsletter. Click the icon below to start the download.

A text version of the newsletter will be online soon.

(1.7MB It may take a while to load on dial up machines, so be patient.)

New Irish Iron Scarf available now

Clifford Byrne pictured with his new Irish Iron Scarf after the Peterborough game.

New scarves are £10 stg or €15 euro each including postage within Ireland or UK.

Irish Iron membership 2008/09

Membership fees now due for 2008/09 season.

Cost of membership is €15 euro or £10 sterling for which members receive 2 new members only badges pictured(just 100 of each made), a Pen and a membership card post paid in Ireland/UK.

All monies raised by us will go towards sponsoring players kit at Glanford Park.

Player of the Season Result

Joe Murphy wins our Award for the second season running.
In the closest contest for years, Joe just pipped Jack Cork to the award with Martin Paterson 3rd in the voting.
Thanks to all Members who cast their votes.
Joe will be presented with his award and a presentation bottle of Bushmills Whiskey at the OSC awards night after the Colchester game.

Next seasons membership fee will remain at €15 or £10 stg and for that, members will get 2 new members only badges, a new pen and membership card post paid.
I will bring a supply of badges/pens to the Colchester game for anyone who wants to renew their membership then.

UTI !
Bernard

Irish Iron Player of the Season 2007/08

Could all Irish Iron Members contact me with their votes for our Player of the Season as soon as possible.

Result will be announced on 20th April so get those votes in.

Happy St. Patricks Day !!!

Happy St. Patricks day to Irish Iron Members everywhere!!!

Almost time to pick an Irish Iron Player of the Season so get your thinking caps on.

Alex Calvo-Garcia to visit Dublin

Alex Calvo Garcia has been in touch to let us know that himself and a group of about 30 of his friends will visit Dublin in June, while here he and his group will play an Irish Iron Members select in a fun game of footie.
We're hoping to organise a members get together on one of the nights Alex is here, already Irish Iron members outside Ireland are planning to travel to Dublin to meet the Iron legend who was twice Irish Iron player of the season.
Alex and his party will arrive on 20th June and will spend 3 nights here.

Irish Iron Newsletter 2007/08

Please feel free to download the latest edition of our newsletter (PDF) by clicking the PDF icon

(3.64MB) It may take a while to load on dial up machines, so be patient.

A text based version of the newsletter can be read below:-

Ben Griffin one of the youngest Irishiron (pictured here stood in front of Andy Crosby) was mascot for the day against Sheffield United. Speaknig to him afterwads he said he had a fantastic day.

Things going really well here with the Irish Iron with the Irish Iron membership records being broken.....we have 110 this season beating our previous best of 107 7 seasons ago....many thanks to all of you

Getting designs done up for next seasons membership badges already,the work never stops!!!

MEMBERSHIP

Irish Iron is the official supporters club of Scunthorpe United in Ireland, we are affiliated to the Club and all monies raised by us through membership fees, sales of our own range of merchandise and fund-raisers go to Glanford Park as sponsorship.
A total of 80 people joined Irish Iron last season, our target is to reach 100 this season and, to help achieve this, cost of membership has been reduced to €15 or £10 Sterling which gets members a membership card, new key ring and both new members only enamel Badges post paid in Ireland or Britain.The members only Badges are in limited editions of 100 only and are not for sale separately.

To join us, just send your name/address details and e-mail address with payment to ;
Bernard Griffin, Secretary, Irish Iron-Scunthorpe United Supporters Club, Trusk Road, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Membership of Irish Iron is open to everyone, everywhere, you don't need to be Irish to join, a healthy love of all things Iron will suffice! We have members all over Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore and even Peru!!.

IRISH IRON PLAYER OF THE SEASON 2007-08
Joe Murphy was the runaway winner of our award last season and was presented with his award and Whiskey after the Huddersfield game.It's the second time an Irishman has been our Player of the season after Andy Keogh picked up last seasons award.

Grateful thanks to both Ron Attwooll from Galway who kindly sponsored the engraved silver salver and to Kevin McDaid who sponsored the Whiskey which were presented to Joe.

Members are asked to submit their votes for player of the season in early April, e-mail to irishiron@eircom.net or post to the address provided.

Irish Iron Player of the Season
Previous winners
Quite a few people have asked about previous winners of our award so here is the full list of recipients since we started presenting a Player of the Season award in 1996/97 season.
1996/97 David D'Auria
1997/98 Jamie Forrester
1998/99 Alex Calvo Garcia
1999/00 Russ Wilcox
2000/01 Lee Hodges
2001/02 Alex Calvo Garcia
2002/03 Matthew Sparrow
2003/04 Andy Butler
2004/05 Andy Butler
2005/06 Andy Keogh
2006/07Joe Murphy

Congratulations Cliff and Sandra
Irish Iron made a presentation at Glanford Park following the Brighton game of some Irish Crystal to Cliff and Sandra to mark their engagement. They are wished a long and happy future together by all Irish Iron members. Cliff always makes time for Irish Iron members on trips across which is greatly appreciated by everyone and has a huge collection of Irish Iron merchandise which Sandra just loves to see arriving on each trip across!!!

PLAYER KIT SPONSORSHIP 2007/08
This season we will sponsor the following 5 players kits;
Joe Murphy - Home Shirt + Shorts / Full Away Kit
Cliff Byrne - Full Away Kit
Jim Goodwin - Full Home Kit / Full Away Kit
Ian Morris - Home Shorts + Socks / Full Away Kit
Andy Butler - Home Shirt

At the end of the season the Club sends us the Players kit that we have sponsored which we will then sell/raffle to raise funds towards next season's sponsorship. Any members wishing to purchase a Players shirt please contact B. Griffin at the address provided.

IRISH PLAYERS AT GLANFORD PARK
There are 4 Republic of Ireland Players at Glanford Park this season, Clifford Byrne, Joe Murphy and Ian Morris all from Dublin and Jim Goodwin from Waterford while new signing Martin Paterson has just recently had a call up to the Northern Ireland squad.

TRAVELLING TO SCUNTHORPE
Ryanair have a Dublin to Doncaster-Sheffield route that makes it very easy for Irish Supporters to get over for games. Fares are very reasonable too, especially if booked well in advance. Check out their website www.ryanair.com for more details.

Sadly, the Ryanair Dublin to Humberside service has been cancelled.

ESSENTIAL WEBSITES
Official website for the Iron can be found at www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk
Luke Thornhill's unofficial site at www.iron-bru.net
Iron Union site at www.ironunion.net

Next Seasons (2008/09) proposed Members badges

These are proposed designs for badges available from Irish Iron next season.
Feel free to comment on preferences.