![]() Jim received a commemorative medal for 50 years of loyalty to local soccer from Birmingham County FA chairman Roger Wood in 2011. I was delighted to be able to meet Jim in person as, being Irish, he was at the lunch and is a prominent member of the St Patrick’s Club. The club will be 50 next year and 86-year-old Jim is proud to have had a long and successful career with the Hibs. Joy was undergoing chemotherapy at the time. Photo courtesy of the Leamington Courier Joy and Jim Barry celebrate with the Leamington Hibs’ Division 3 league winning team in 2016. Leamington Hibs’ co-founders Joy and Jim Barry. Joy sadly passed away in 2020 after a 5-year battle with cancer. ![]() ![]() Leamington Hibernian Football Club was founded by Sheena’s parents, Jim and Joy Barry in 1974. Items collected by the St Patrick’s Tuesday Club Sheena has been actively involved in fundraisers and aid collections and has received donations of a huge amount of toiletries and hygiene products – all collected by the ladies of the St Patrick’s Tuesday Club. Meeting with Sheena and Ewan Macleod in Fethiye to handover the donation of children’s football kits from Leamington Hibernian FCįive years later, Sheena and I met up again in the UK, this time as a result of the devastating earthquakes in southeast Türkiye and northern Syria. Some of you may remember in 2018 when we first met Sheena and Ewan Macleod who made a donation of children’s football kits from Leamington Hibernian FC to a school in Günlükbaşı, Fethiye. So what do St Patrick’s Day, earthquake donations and Leamington Hibernian FC have in common? Rewind to 2018 The same can be said of the Tuesday Club at St Patrick’s Irish Club in Leamington Spa which held a lunch to celebrate the patron saint on Tuesday in the lead-up to the full celebration on the big day itself, 17th March.įethiye Times was invited to attend, an invitation that some may find strange for a Fethiye newspaper. For most Irish people, the month of March means St Patrick’s Day and an opportunity to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland.
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