{"id":10780,"date":"2025-08-20T04:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10780\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:15:17","slug":"memory-of-limerick-man-who-died-in-tenerife-kept-alive-with-soccer-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10780\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory of Limerick man who died in Tenerife kept alive with soccer tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE FAMILY of a popular young Limerick man have thanked everybody involved in keeping Dale Hannon\u2019s memory alive.<\/p>\n<p>Dale, from Ballinacurra Weston, passed away in Tenerife in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/health\/1873323\/dublin-ladies-footballers-banish-hospital-blues-but-nikki-would-prefer-limerick-s-hurlers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dublin ladies footballers banish hospital \u2018Blues\u2019 but Nikki would prefer Limerick&#8217;s hurlers!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The local community joined together to celebrate Dale\u2019s life with a soccer tournament at Hyde Rangers FC on the Hyde Road.<\/p>\n<p>The family day featured matches for men, women and children, ladies penalty shootout, ice cream van, party bags, face painting and lots of games. Many wore T-shirts with Dale&#8217;s face printed on the front.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1149b5b5-a62d-4192-8086-99a8b1b619b0-1755624849916.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1149b5b5-a62d-4192-8086-99a8b1b619b0-1755625206653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dale\u2019s family said he had \u201ca passion for soccer, playing with Hyde Rangers and many other teams in Limerick\u201d. Dale&#8217;s friends, in conjunction with the local ABC club, organise this tournament every year to keep his memory alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are memorial shields for the winners of the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s matches, medals for the runners-up and children, and a trophy for the penalty shootout winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as Dale&#8217;s family look forward to this event every year. We would like to thank everyone involved in organising and taking part in the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would also\u00a0 like to thank the sponsors (see picture below) who donate every year and Hyde Rangers for hosting it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/81184905-5f32-4b44-a74e-ec71a4f3f342-1755625165124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s great to see Dale&#8217;s memory kept alive,\u201d say his family.<\/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":"THE FAMILY of a popular young Limerick man have thanked everybody involved in keeping Dale Hannon\u2019s memory alive.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,7587,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-10780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick-city","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}