Irish Centre's................

Busy within the Irish community in Liverpool at present and it all seems to be happening at St Michaels Irish Centre, West Derby Road, Liverpool. The Liverpool public will be very aware of the previous existence of the Irish Centre at Mount Pleasant Liverpool, which was open from the early 1960's till the middle of the 1990's and was then lost due to various financial problems.......................no time at present to go into the history of the old Irish Centre now, but may do in the future at some point, as its a very long story!!!!!!!

Anyway, since 1998ish St Michaels Irish Centre has been up and running providing a great service to various Irish community organisations in Liverpool to meet and organise themselves. A lot of the former families that where involved in the previous Irish Centre were given the opportunity by St Michaels Parish to take over the existing building and run it soley for the Irish community as well as the locals. I have to say that the Centre has gone from strength to strength since that time and a lot of work has been done on the inside of the building to help modernise a very jaded and 1970's look. The people involved in running the centre deserve much credit for the work that goes into maintaining the building and also the activities that go there which include Irish language classes, Irish dancing and music classes, a flute band, a soccer team and a GAA football team and of course a great function room that all the groups regulalry use. There's also a nice little shop that sells foodstuffs from Ireland.

The centre is also great for watching sports on the tv's and always has GGA games a s well as live games featuring Celtic, Liverpool and Everton. Sunday afternoon is always special with an informal music/singing session happening or just occuring.......


Only problem that St Michaels always faces is that fact that while its only 10 mins from the city centre, alot of people think its in the middle of nowhere!!!!!!!!!! so its misses that passing trade that the mount pleasant building was always good at attracting............but hey ho, you can't have everything................St Michaels has a website http://stmichaelsirishcentre.org/ go down on a sunday and have the craic!!!!!