whose running track and playing pitch now occupies the site of the old St Michael’s pitch, and is now used by the club's schoolboy and reserve teams. It hosted one game at the 1994 UEFA European Under-16 Championship, where Germany defeated Switzerland 5–1. Cooke Park is widely recognised as one of the best junior grounds in Ireland, and has hosted three FAI Junior Cup finals, four Munster Junior Cup Finals, three FAI Youth Cup finals, three Munster Youth Cup finals, UEFA European U.16 championship internationals, Junior and Amateur internationals, Lawyers World Cup and many local TSDL finals. The Cooke Park facilities were used as a training base for the local special needs athletes for the Special Olympics, in 2003. In 2005, the club installed a floodlit all-weather facility, and UEFA standard floodlighting on the Cooke Park pitch. In August 2009, the Republic of Ireland senior international squad used Cooke Park for a training camp, in preparation for their friendly international games against Australia (12 August) and South Africa (8 September) in Thomond Park, Limerick. Honours To date the club have won every honour available to it at local, provincial and national level. These honours include the FAI Junior Cup, Munster Junior Cup, FAI Youth Cup, FAI U.17 Cup, MFA Youth Cup, Tipperary League and Cup at Junior and Youth level, the AOH Cup, and the Cork AUL League. FAI Junior Cup 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. For thirty years the club was the last club outside of Dublin to have won the trophy. The capital's monopoly on the competition was finally broken, ironically, by local Tipperary rivals, Clonmel Town in 1994, a game which was played in Cooke Park beating New Ross Celtic 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. Two years later, St. Michael's were competing in another Junior Cup final, against Fairview Rangers of Limerick. The venue on this occasion was Turner's Cross in Cork. A late St. Michael's equaliser saw the game end in a 1–1 draw. Fairview won home advantage for the replay on the toss of a coin and emerged as 4-2 victors, having come from two goals down. In May 2014,