'A hundred thousand welcomes'. That's what the sign above the door at St Kentigern's Social Club in south Manchester says in Gaellic.
But regulars who have been going to the club in Fallowfield for decades - many of whom were born to Irish families - say they no longer feel welcome. "They've wiped every trace of Irish heritage," according to Mario Conway, whose father was a founding member.
Stories of the club's closure have been circulating on social media, but the Diocese of Salford, which owns it, insists they are untrue.
However, one room - the vault - which was previously open to the public most nights of the week was suddenly shut this summer. READ MORE: "They might give me a house, they might not": Thousands at risk of homelessness as government races to clear asylum backlog READ MORE: Today's top Manchester Evening News stories It comes after the club's long-standing and much-loved manager left in June.
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