Replying To CastleBravo:  "Even ignoring the huge costs and organisational impossibility of throwing together a serious team spanning all of Australia or Canada(!) none of those teams would have a chance of even beating New York, never mind being competitive vs. a real county.

The European Senior club champions get a spot in first round of the Leinster junior football club championship, and have been well beaten each time. Kilkenny are 40 points a worse team than any other county in Ireland at football yet manage to win the British championship. The gap is utterly massive.

Even before we talk about standards, I have to ask why these teams would even deserve a place in the All Ireland Championship. I know they do their best to keep the GAA flame burning abroad, and it's a valuable link to their heritage, but that doesnt mean they should be given a spot at the top level of competition. There's thousands of players in Ireland who never have and never will make their county panel because they aren't good enough (like me! I'm also too old at this stage). There's no token county places or pity spots in the championship for lads like me though, I've to make do with Junior C football and division 4 B league. Yet apparently if I go abroad and start playing in Kuwait or Belgium, I deserve to have a shot at the highest, most prestigious competition in the GAA?!"