Football Club targeted by thugs with fourth attack on property
By Maurice Garvey
IT HAS not been a good year for Ballyfermot United off the pitch – following the fourth vandal attack on club property since January.
Within the last week, vandals broke into their dressing rooms, ripping up club jerseys, and ransacking the property.
Ballyfermot United’s dressing room was wrecked by vandals
Two days later, a local joyrider caused damage to pitches at Le Fanu Park, on which the club said “would have up to 100 kids playing matches” on a “normal weekend.”
In response to the vandalism, the club posted a public message.
It said: “We make strides as a club and then come up to find the training ground and dressing rooms ripped open, destroyed, and to make it worse we found our jerseys ripped and cut.
I hope you’re very proud of yourselves and your parents. But we will go on again and should anyone have any information please contact us.”
Ripped club jerseys
In late February, the club made a public appeal for information following a previous break-in at the Coldcut dressing rooms.
At the time, the club estimated break-ins have cost them between €8,000 to €10,000 with regard to stolen property and damages over the previous 18 months.
This included a €5,000 tractor robbed from the lockup and a stolen boiler which cost nearly €2,000 to replace.
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