You gotta restart somewhere. Next Sunday, after a break of 1,071 days, the New York Gaelic football team will play in competition again. The pandemic threw everyone’s cards up into the air and now, finally, theirs will be the last one to flutter back down. Every county team, club team, school team and makey-uppy Division 6B team in the GAA has had some sort of game by now. Everyone except New York.
They last kicked a ball in anger on May 5th, 2019, when Mayo gave them a pasting in that summer’s Connacht Championship opener. Once Covid hit, New York were never going to play in 2020, and even by the time the 2021 championship got up and running, trans-Atlantic flights were still five months away. They were there but not there, the championship’s vestigial li …
- April 10, 2022
