Archive for August, 2011
#273 Champs St Mikes pull through in OT
Reigning champions St Mikes had to pull out all the stops in the final of this year's Toronto senior football championship, as rivals St Vincents - who had gotten the better of them in the '07 and '09 deciders - nearly inflicted a trio of defeats last Sunday at Centennial Park. When it looked like 'Vincents had done enough and would win the [...]
#272 ‘Wolves Kuwait chapter play their part
Last September members of the Barley House Wolves Hurling team - a club founded in 2005 by US soldiers at Shannon airport when on route home after a 1 year tour of duty in Iraq - were redeployed to Kuwait and this time packed their hurls along with their rifles. In Kuwait in-between missions, they kept their touch in on base with late night [...]
Boston Northeast Championship results
Boston Northeast Championship Finals Senior Football Aidan McAnespies 2-15 Connemara Gaels 1-12 Senior Hurling Galway 1-11 Wexford 1-10 Orla Benson Cup Final Tir na nOg 3-14 Boston Shamrocks 1-6 Junior A Football Wolfe Tones 2-14 Donegal 1-12 Junior B Football Aidan McAnespies 1-10 Galway 1-7 Junior [...]
#271 The Phoenix Gaels footballers in the Sonora Desert
While the All Ireland Hurling Final takes center stage in Ireland this week, North America too will be attracting followers of Gaelic sports as the annual US National Finals are set to begin on Friday, Sept 2-4 at Treasure Island, San Francisco. Clubs from all across America and even Canada will be making their way to the Golden State in [...]
New York GAA cancel fixtures ahead of Irene
New York GAA have cancelled fixtures set for Sunday Aug 28 at Gaelic Park, the Bronx, on account of the threat of Hurricane Irene hitting the city and greater NY area over the weekend.
Boston finals schedule change due to hurricane threat
Boston GAA has been forced to make a change to the Northeast GAA finals schedule on account of the threat from Hurricane Irene as it heads up the US eastern seaboard this weekend. Boston GAA website said today that, "due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene this weekend the schedule has been brought forward for the championship finals. [...]
#270 Mac’s, Gaels and Galway into Boston finals but beware Irene…
We have arrived at the penultimate weekend of Boston Northeast championship action with all finals down for decision over the weekend...that's if Hurricane Irene plays along! Sunday last saw three epic semi finals where in football, Connemara Gaels saw off Boston Galway in Overtime, Aidan McAnespies in their clash with St Christopher's stayed [...]
#269 ‘Emmetts trump champs ahead of semi clash
This year's semi final pairings in the London Senior Hurling Championship are rather intriguing in that they are exactly the same pairings that battled it out in Sunday's last round of the regular season. Robert Emmett's in their clash with champions Kilburn Gaels, edged over the line with a pair of second half goals making all the difference. [...]
#268 St Vincents and St Mikes into Toronto final
Folk in eastern Canada have had to contend with all kinds of weather and events over the past week as an earthquake gave a wee shake to Toronto yesterday - no loss of life resulted - while a storm last Sunday did its best to upset semi final football fixtures at Centennial Park. The two senior football championship semi finals games went ahead, [...]
#267 NY Offaly hurlers win 5th in row, Armagh footballers upset the odds
GaelicSportsCast is delighted to partner with New York GAA in bringing you the remaining NY GAA championship games from Gaelic Park in the Bronx, New York. Over the next 7 weeks, GaelicSportsCast brings you all the latest news from Gaelic Park starting with yesterday's action which saw NY Offaly hurlers write themselves into the history [...]
