No funds left in New York ... for New York
May 31, 2016
The Roscommon team have their photograph taken before the New York game at Gaelic Park.
©INPHO/Ed Mulholland.
New York GAA is concerned by the amount of clubs, teams and organisations travelling to the Big Apple to raise funds.
With the likes of Kerry, Monaghan and Roscommon fundraising in the US city of late, their concern is based on the reality that there will be no donations left for the local GAA as more and more money travels across the Atlantic:
"It grates a lot at this stage, the number of them coming out," former New York board chairman Larry McCarthy told The Irish Examiner. "In the last three or four weeks we've had Roscommon, who had an event when they were here for the championship. Kerry were here for a lunch as well, the second fundraiser in a year. The GPA had a golf outing, and Monaghan were out the same weekend as Kerry.
"Our concern is when we go in and look for money to renovate Gaelic Park, is that going to be a problem for us?
"That's the concern for us - that when we get through the bureaucracy to try to renovate Gaelic Park, will the fundraising Kerry and the GPA and everybody else has done have an impact on our ability to raise funds?"
