Luke Dennison ended up in the League of Ireland after following in family’s footsteps searching for new horizons.
David Sneyd PAUL DENNISON ALWAYS told his son Luke and daughter Katie his story when they were growing up.
Paul Dennison became a regular in the Chinese takeaways and other fast food shops of 1980s New York. He’d clean kitchens, finding a way to get into every nook and cranny – even on the roofs – to collect the grease and earn the money needed to survive, and to save for that future he first imagined in America.
So when Paul finished top of his class and received a scholarship to law school that ambition of something more from his life was close to being realised. Redwood City was their first home before settling closer to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. A few hours north of home in the town of Chico, CSU was named America’s No 1 party college for 15 years in a row, from 1987 to 2002, by Playboy magazine. Dennison was not oblivious to the temptation, but CSU had also disbanded its American Football team in a bid to clean up its image.
He had built up savings – a little more than the $200 his Dad left Ireland with but not enough that they didn’t also quickly run out. He visited another uncle in Wales to try with lower league teams there but returned to auntie Geraldine. He got a job in a coffee shop and would walk for an hour along some of the backroads to training with Leixlip United. He also spent one day a week training with Wexford.
The risks and the doubts and the perseverance combined to fuel him. So too faith, the daily Bible readings helping him to exist in what he describes as living in a constant state of prayer, a feeling that allows him take disappointment in his stride.
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