{"id":267393,"date":"2026-01-28T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267393\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:39:08","slug":"limerick-sporting-community-rallies-around-soccer-club-stalwart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267393\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick sporting community rallies around soccer club stalwart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THOUSANDS of euro has been raised in only a few days to support a local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/312\/soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">soccer<\/a> stalwart who is in hospital having suffered life-changing injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Michael \u2018Bomber\u2019 Sheehan, a member of southside club Hyde Rangers for more than 60 years, has been in University Hospital Limerick for more than six months having suffered a fall.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s expected to return to his home at Hilltop, St Patrick\u2019s Road in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1998718\/woman-said-husband-s-narcissist-behaviour-forced-her-to-steal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Woman said husband&#8217;s &#8216;narcissist&#8217; behaviour forced her to steal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, significant modifications are needed to improve access in the home and support his ongoing recovery.<\/p>\n<p>To help \u2018Bomber\u2019, the club has set up a GoFundMe page, which had fetched more than \u20ac13,000 by this Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>His neighbour Gerry McCormack, club secretary at Hyde Rangers, described \u2018Bomber\u2019 as a \u201clegend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe played with us as a youth, at junior level. He coached teams at schoolboy and youth level and he was in charge of the junior team for years. He is still a member of our committee now, and was very involved when the club bought the ground in Hyde Road,\u201d Gerry said.<\/p>\n<p>He believes his friend and neighbour may never walk again.<\/p>\n<p>So it means his home will need to be adapted for someone in a wheelchair &#8211; with a special ground floor bathroom, and a special accessible bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>But this does not come cheap, and although grants are available, they will not make up the whole cost.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry described the reaction to the GoFundMe page as \u201camazing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Donate at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/michael-bomber-sheehan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/michael-bomber-sheehan<\/a> or call Gerry on 086-8256013.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THOUSANDS of euro has been raised in only a few days to support a local soccer stalwart who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1113,34646,61,60,1396,78055,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-267393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-fai","9":"tag-gofundme","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick","13":"tag-local-history","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}