St Malachy’ s OB Youth FC provides football coaching to over 200 registered children with age groups competing each week and representing the club from Under 11 years of age level right down to Under 5's. We have approximately 36 coaches, all trained, helping develop the kids and we also have increased our number of sponsors across all the age groups.

Our vision is to further develop St. Malachy’s OB Youth FC as an integral part of the local community, providing support direction and leadership to young footballers of all abilities in a safe, fun environment using football as a tool.

Our long term aim is to develop our own club infrastructure, experience, qualifications and skills to offer our youngsters the best service we can at their stage of development.

That's where you come in.

All this wonderful work cannot be done with the support of the community. We have many people volunteering their time and contributing in so many ways to the club since our inception in 2015.

Of those people 5 teams will once again run the Belfast Marathon relay. Our fantastic volunteers will be running 210.5 km, the distance from Belfast to Carlow, in aid of supporting the development of St Malachy's OB Youth Team, and of course our chosen sponsor, the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice.

So we are asking if you can donate, big or small. Even a single pound will help buy some Nip Guards for our poor marathon runners ;P

And of course, please come down to the Belfast Marathon to cheer on our marvellous coaches, parents and volunteers!