‘North America’ Archives
North American Championships start today
This morning Sept 3, at Gaelic Park, Chicago we have the start of the three day North American GAA Championships. Teams from all across America and Canada will gather for the annual national playoffs to decide who should be crowned North American champions for 2010. It promises to be the biggest yet in terms of participation as the weekend's [...]
#137 McBob’s win Milwaukee championship
In sweltering temperatures, McBob's and Packy's took to the field at Brown Deer Park last Sunday to decide this year's Milwaukee Hurling Club championship. After a low scoring first half, that saw McBob's shading things, the battle heated considerably in the second as an early brace of goals from McBob's pushed them out into a seven point [...]
#136 Donegal and Tipp win Boston titles
The Boston Northeast Division Championships drew to a close over the weekend with easy victories for the winners of both the senior football and senior hurling championships. In men's senior football, the final saw old rivals Donegal and Aidan McAnespies battling it out for the top prize in regional football. The game failed to catch fire as a [...]
#135 Cork tops in New York
NY Cork finished top seed in this year's senior football championship table when recording a comfortable win over second place and last year's champions, Down, yesterday at Gaelic Park in the Bronx. We also saw fourth place Tyrone dash Donegal's hopes of making it to the playoffs with an 8 point victory and the winners now go on to play Cavan [...]
#133 Boston Galway hurlers into final
Galway, one of the oldest clubs in Boston, sprang somewhat of a surprise in the senior hurling championship semi final last weekend when comprehensively beating the more fancied Wexford at Canton. Galway will now take on Tipperary in the final on Sunday. Meanwhile in mens football, favourites Aidan McAnespies had a comfortable win over Armagh [...]
#130 Offaly claim four in row in ‘Big Apple’
It was a joyous day for the New York Offaly hurling club yesterday, Sunday Aug 22, as they took their fourth senior hurling championship title in a row in this year's hurling final at Gaelic Park in the Bronx. This was a repeat of last year's conclusion to the hurling season, and it was Offaly again, who in a close match, proved too much for [...]
#129 McBob’s and Packy’s into Milwaukee final
So this year's Milwaukee Hurling Club Championship has been whittled down to two following last weekend's semi finals at Brown Deer Park. In the first semi final of the day, McBob's had it all to do as they were paired with Shamrock Club who went into the game with the best record in the league. However, it was the underdogs McBob's who [...]
#125 Down to semis in Boston
It's playoff time in Boston as this weekend sees two semi finals in mens senior football and one semi final in hurling take center stage at Canton outside Boston. This means that last weekend was crunch time for teams trying desperately to stay in contention for a playoff birth. One such team in the football was last year's Intermediate [...]
#124 Big wins in football as NY Tipp hurlers reach final
As the New York GAA Championships turned into the home stretch yesterday, the top contenders for this years senior football championship laid down markers with comfortable victories, while in hurling NY Tipperary taking inspiration from their cousins back home, strode into another championship final. In Tipp's semi final clash with Galway, both [...]
#123 Down to last four in Milwaukee
So the much anticipated Milwaukee Hurling Championship playoffs arrived at Brown Deer Park on Sunday last and they didn't disappoint. The first quarter final of the day between Shamrock Club and The Irish Pub was a real dogged affair with both sets of defences on top early on, however a late goal in the second half from the leagues top [...]
