History was made at the Brustin Braes as Latharna Og played a Gaelic Football game. The game was the St Marys Larne 1922 Centenary Commemoration Game. St Marys who preceded Latharna Og as the GAA team in the town of Larne won an Antrim Junior Football championship in 1922, had fallen victim to father time. Long before Latharna Ogs inception in 1965. We are right at the point of the edge of living memory for anyone who are even descendents of people who has seen this club play. In attendece on Saturday was Bernadette Bannon daughter of arguably Larnes’ greatest ever sportsman- Bertie Fulton who was a member of the St Marys 1922 Championship winning team. A solitary photograph including the famous Fulton as a 15 year old in 1922 was the only manifestation of this old club who had long faded from the memory.

That was the case until this April when the St Marys 1922 replica Jersey was launched at an event at the Larne Museum to mark the Centenary of the achievements of this deceased club. Since then prepartions begun for todays showpiece event, beginners football sessions have been taking place over the past month, with Armagh man Tiarán Ó’Muilleoir from the Wolftones club comming down to teach the boys the basics in preparation for the showpiece event. And what an event it was on a glorious sunny Saturday afternoon the panel of Latharana Og players defeated the panel of St Marys players in the exhabition game. Reardless if this was an indication of things to come or a nod to the achievements of the past this was a remarkable day for the GAA in this part of the county.
Well done to all involved.