Castleknock Celtic FC 2005/12 Home Shirt

Irish teamwear from the Jako era, with long-sleeved hoops, black piping and a black 11 on the back. The German brand's template and the label point to the late 2000s, and the sponsor nails the spirit of the age: Dolmen Construction, a builder of the Celtic Tiger years, chose as its logo a hand-drawn dolmen and medieval manuscript lettering, advertising made five thousand years in advance.

It is a squad shirt, not a shop one: it came from the real life of Castleknock Celtic's teams, where the green and white hoops are the official colours, inherited, as the name itself suggests, from the great spiritual family of Celtic that this archive knows so well.

Here at Hoopster, the sponsor sums up the whole archive: some things are built to last millennia, and keeping stripes is also a way of raising them.