{"id":309262,"date":"2026-02-21T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309262\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:17:09","slug":"watch-finn-park-soup-ladies-reveal-secret-behind-their-famous-matchday-broth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309262\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Finn Park soup ladies reveal secret behind their famous matchday broth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Main pic: Pat Floyd (left) and Margaret Patton. Image: Press Record Videos-Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>The women behind the much-loved matchday soup at Finn Park have spoken for the first time about how their tradition began.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Patton and Pat Floyd will be back in their familiar positions in the Finn Harps shop tonight for the first home league game of the season against UCD.<\/p>\n<p>The popular pair from Ballybofey told Press Record Videos-Donegal (below) how they first began making soup in their own kitchens before bringing it to a small wooden cabin at the Navenny Street ground.<\/p>\n<p>They later teamed up with the Finn Harps Supporters Club to improve facilities and, over the past 28 years, have helped raise several hundred thousand euro for the cash-strapped club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you volunteer, you have to stay because you don\u2019t get away from Finn Park that easily,\u201d they laughed.<br \/> \u201cBut it\u2019s Ballybofey \u2014 it\u2019s our town and Finn Harps is our club. Anything we do, we do for the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well done to Margaret and Pat \u2014 and you can catch a cup of their famous soup tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624127\" class=\"wp-image-624127 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Margaret-Patton-Pat-Floyd-Finn-Harps-shop.-Pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-624127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Patton (left) gives the thumbs up while Pat Floyd poses for the cameras!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Finn Park soup ladies reveal secret behind their famous matchday broth was last modified:  February 20th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main pic: Pat Floyd (left) and Margaret Patton. Image: Press Record Videos-Donegal. The women behind the much-loved matchday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11243,145156,145157,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-309262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal-news","tag-finn-harps-soup","tag-finn-park-soup","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309262","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=309262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}