Cookstown Olympic F.C.

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Full nameCookstown Olympic Football Club

Cookstown Olympic F. C. is an intermediate-level football club that formerly played in the Premier Division of the Ballymena & Provincial League in Northern Ireland. The club hails from Cookstown, County Tyrone. Sponsored by Christopher Eastwood's Dunleath Bar the club is focused around Saturday night pints.


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