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Pat Lyons Elected Chairman

Pat Lyons has been elected as the Chairman of the FORAS Trust and Cork City Football Club for the coming year.

2014 FORAS AGM

The FORAS AGM will take place on Friday February 21st at 7.45pm in the Metropole Hotel.

Reminder: FORAS General Meeting

A General Meeting of FORAS will take place this evening (Wednesday, September 25th) at the Metropole Hotel from 7pm sharp. Trustees will receive a number of updates, including: – Chairman Mick Ring’s Mid Year report – a Financial Update – a recap of the Improving Football Governance project (Niamh O’Mahony) – an update from the Infrastructure Group (Pat Lyons) before having a Q & A session with Stuart Ashton and CEO Tim Murphy. Trustee membership fees and new trsutees are welcome on the night, while minutes of the meeting will be available at a later date for those members who...

Project Update: FORAS story heard in Belgium

It has been a busy couple of weeks for the working group looking after the European Commission Improving Football Governance project on behalf of FORAS. Project Manager Niamh O’Mahony travelled to Antwerp last weekend, having been invited to speak at the project’s Belgian workshop. Representatives of Eskabee 1935 FC and Federation of Antwerp Supporters (Club) were joined by officials from Belgian Pro-League club OH Leuven and two national fans’ organisations, SFP and NSF, amongst others. Full report here. Niamh outlined the story of FORAS and how the supporters’ trust came to own and run Cork City FC. She also spoke...