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Congratulations to New York. It is wonderful that our games are prospering overseas. fainleog (Limerick) - Posts: 598 - 28/06/2017 21:30:16 2007130 Link
Replying To s goldrick: "Fair play to New York. to hell with the begrudgers. It's only because they won that people have a problem with them. If they were not any good then these same people wouldn't have a problem." Absolutely congrats to New York boys team on winning division 1 cup. Fantastic achievement for them & great reward for the huge effort the Irish are continuing to put in over there. There might be 8 million people in New York but very small minority playing gaa & for those that are often involves commuting times of up to 1hr 30 mins to get to training. There will always be begrudgers..... bond (Longford) - Posts: 174 - 28/06/2017 21:53:11 2007142 Link
project usa won't come to anything, hurling is on life support in our own country, put the efforts into that. christy sting (Derry) - Posts: 262 - 29/06/2017 18:34:50 2007650 Link
Replying To Yourjoking: "The boys team they had were all over 6 foot and talking to them they had 1000 boys at trails for this squad that is unbelievable they just steam rolled everyone." 1000 boys from no more than eight clubs??????? Must have some of what you are smoking. Seriously though unbelievable work being done underage in NY and good luck to them. One of their midfielders in Senior Connacht Championship came right out of minor Board. Shane Carthy, coming on for the almighty Dubs last weekend in Croker - another NY minor graduate. Problem is as it always has been - keeping them after minor ranks when they go away to college. Huge dropoff which is a pity as a lot of these guys are serious athletes who could easily play at the very highest level. GPlifer (USA) - Posts: 290 - 29/06/2017 21:25:30 2007702 Link
I don't know a lot about the club set up in NY and am forming this opinion on what comments I have read on here. While it is great that the games are going so well over state side something just doesn't sit right with me that you can send a select side which makes such short work of the supposed best teams in Ireland at the age. As someone else mentioned, when you have small clubs able to make Féile by winning their County but then find out you are up against a select team it can't be right. I can kinda understand maybe back in the day when maybe NY clubs were of a standard/had not enough clubs/players where it made sense to allow an amalgamation so that they wouldn't be in effect the whipping boys or girls. But if things have evolved to the degree that they start holding trials and preparing for this as far back as December then I think it is time that it is a club which gets put forward to represent NY and not the pick of the best. Let NY hold their own 'regional' competition with the winning boys and girls teams at the age groups going on to Féile. Don't see why they should be afforded any special treatment over Irish club teams but I trust the results this year will make the organisers have a wee rethink before 2018. Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 30/06/2017 08:42:22 2007806 Link
As for the Feile I think that has had its day a quaint throw-back to a different time, but the GAA is great at holding onto its rusting ancient traditions. Why do you think that, arock? Genuinely curious. I played in the Féile about 15 years ago and it was an amazing weekend which I still look back on fondly. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 30/06/2017 13:42:57 2007943 Link
Replying To christy sting: "project usa won't come to anything, hurling is on life support in our own country, put the efforts into that." The amount of funding that GAA clubs/ boards get overseas is a drop in the ocean compared to overall spending, and the vast majority of funding required to keep any club going will come out of the player's pockets and local sponsorship. People set up this false dichotomy all of the time, it's not the fault of overseas clubs that hurling didn't take off in most Irish counties. Neither will removing the paltry grants that some clubs occasionally receive get hurling going in parts of Ireland where there's no tradition of it. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 30/06/2017 13:48:46 2007951 Link

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