Rovers won the second game 1–0, courtesy of a penalty kick scored by a young player who went on to become a League of Ireland legend, Bob Fullam.

In 1947, a group of local football people established St. Michael's having received a letter from a Limerick party requesting a challenge match.

St. Michael's claimed the biggest prize in Irish junior football for the first time in 1974, beating Tolka Rovers (Dublin) 2–1 in the final.

The club appeared in a final of the competition for the second time in the 1999–2000 season, losing 2–0 to a strong Portmarnock side, in Tolka Park, Dublin.

[2] In May 2014, St. Michael's won their second FAI Junior Cup after a 4–0 win against Ballynanty Rovers at the Aviva Stadium with goals from David Slattery, Pat Quinn and two from Jimmy Carr.

[7] Another former player, Shane Long, is currently starring for Premier League team Southampton and has been capped at senior international level.

When earning his second cap as a substitute against Slovakia on 28 March 2007,[8] he became the first person to play both hurling and international football at Croke Park, having been part of the Tipperary team for the All-Ireland Minor semi-finals in 2003 and 2004.

The club have a hard working committee of fifteen members,and have an average of seventy five players per season between first and second teams at both youth and junior level.