Burnaby Lawns Family Fun Day 2017

The Fonz lives!

ot quite the same tension felt as the Lions took on the All-Blacks, but both sides clearly wanted to win this afternoon at the annual Burnaby Lawns Family Fun Day football match.

With residents from Burnaby Lawns taking on members of the local Garda Síochána, the town’s new Cathaoirleach Gerry Walsh acted as referee.

For the Lawns, Daniel Elliot was on fine form in goals, whilst team captain Michael O’Brien was in flying form. Substitute goalie Andrew Parker did his team proud too, with a mighty save.

On the garda front, Barney Carroll was the man keeping the goals at bay whilst Brian Coen might just have been Man Of The Match if Sean Liddy hadn’t scored an incredible four goals.

In the end, it was Garda 5, Lawns 2.

The fact that there were lovely & free Des Doyle burgers for afters, and the kids got to play on a great big bouncy castle, courtesy of Ciaran Hayden, meant the scoreline was soon forgotten.

Until next year comes around, of course.

Thanks to John McGowan for all de pics – full gallery here. And you can check out last year’s fine shindig right about here.