The Board of Directors of the Glentoran Recreation Company is delighted to announce that effective from Friday 31st January 2020, the club has discharged all obligations to the final historic creditor, thus rendering Glentoran effectively debt free.
If you were going to pick a time in the history of Glentoran to sign for the club, safe to say it wouldn’t have been December 2013. We were the Irish Cup holders, but in the seven months following the final, that team had lost quality players of the level of Colin Nixon, Stephen Carson, Andy Waterworth and Sean Ward, with Jimmy Callacher and Richard Clarke about to leave in the upcoming window. The club was mired in historic debt and top players were hard to tempt to East Belfast.
Glentoran are through to the quarter finals of the Sadler's Peaky Blinder Irish Cup following a nervy but deserved 3-2 win over Queens University thanks to a Robbie McDaid hattrick. The small capacity ground was completely sold out however there were as many Glentoran supporters outside, watching the game from various vantage points.
Glentoran can confirm that Curtis Allen has departed the club to join Coleraine on loan. Everyone at the club would like to put on record our sincere thanks to Curtis for everything he has done for the club over the past 6 years. Scoring 110 goals in what were tough years for the club, Curtis is and will remain a Glentoran legend.
Glentoran is delighted to announce the deadline day signing of Ruaridhri Donnelly from Cliftonville, on a contract until May 2023.
Mick McDermott: "I am very happy to have secured Ruaridhri for Glentoran. It seemed a bit of a long shot when we first decided to enquire to Cliftonville about him, but he was very keen to come here to be part of our climb. Ruairidhri has played at a much higher level in England and has given Glentoran trouble every time he has faced us since returning home.
Saturday 1st February. 2020, Kick Off 1.30pm
Tomorrow afternoon we aim to continue our run in the Sadler’s Peaky Blinder Irish Cup with out first visit to the Dub Playing Fields in South Belfast to play Queen’s University.
The club has been informed that there have been reports of counterfeit tickets available for our Sadler's Peaky Blinders Irish Cup tie at the Dub on Saturday. As a result, Queen's University FC have asked that each of the 100 Glentoran supporters who were successful in the draw for tickets please report to the reception at the Dub when they arrive, to show their season ticket as well as their match ticket. No one will be able to gain entry without proof of identification.
Glentoran returned to the top of the Danske Bank Premiership with a comfortable 4-nil win over Glenavon at the Oval, our first home win against the Lurgan Blues since November 2015!
Midweek football at the Oval and another jam packed edition of your multi-award winning Glentoran Gazette. Brian McClelland looks back at our memorable 1981 friendly with Tottenham Hotspur, Thomas McCartney gives his team of the 2010s, with the Irish Cup coming up this weekend we have a look at our record in penalty shoot-outs and John Grayden looks at crowd figures north and south of the border. John also chats with new boy Andrew Mitchell and Eddy Patrick’s 250 Club interview is with Jason Hill. Plus a look at our opponents Glenavon, news, views, stats and top class photo action from T
