# 604 Asian Games score with huge participation levels
In today’s Podcast we look back on last weekend’s Fexco Asian Gaelic Games, the three day festival of Gaelic sports and principle event of the Asia GAA annual calendar.
Teams from Jakarta to Japan travelled to Kuala Lumper, Malaysia to compete in 11 competitions in men’s and ladies Gaelic football, hurling and exhibition camogie.
Asia GAA Chairperson Joe Trolan gives us a full rundown on the tournament from the elite Grade A competitions to intermediate and junior adult level with its huge numbers of teams.
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# 603 Tir Chonaill and Kingdom for football repeat, Brothers Pearse make hurling final
Brothers Pearse, the oldest GAA club in London, pictured here when winning the Intermediate Hurling title in 2010, are back in the bigtime as their semi win on Sunday sees them now into the London senior final. (Photo courtesy of Brothers Pearse GAA).
We had plenty of excitement, close finishes, near shocks and surprises in last weekend’s London senior football and hurling semi finals at Ruislip.
Here to give us the lowdown on the big semis action is London GAA PRO Declan Flanagan.
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# 602 European Finals Preview
It’s a big weekend for European GAA as Saturday sees the grand finals of this year’s Europe Mens & Ladies Gaelic Football Championships at Athlone Institute of Technology Campus in Athlone, County Westmeath.
Some 27 clubs representing 11 countries will descend on AIT for the GAA Euros which this year coincides with Athlone named as European City of Sport and the European Gathering initiative. There are many firsts for this year’s championships including a brand new men’s format with teams spread into senior intermediate and junior grades.
In the Podcast, we here first from one of the senior men’s favourites Guernsey and their captian Airy Cleere. He talks about the team’s loss last week to Fenagh of Co. Carlow in the Leinster Junior Club Championship and their chances of success in Athlone. We also here from European GAA PRO Brian Clerkin on this year’s big event in Westmeath.
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# 601 Aer Lingus Hurling Festival legacy to last a long time
In the podcast, GaelicSportsCast looks back on September’s memorable Aer Lingus Hurling Tournament in Galway, Ireland with an in-depth look at a hurling event that will live long in the memory.
Sixteen teams from across the world descended on the county of the tribes at the behest of Aer Lingus as part of their ‘Gathering’ initiative to come and play the national sport in the ‘motherland’. The event was a glorious triumph for Aer Lingus, Galway, the GAA, and the sport of hurling.
The festival will go down as one of the best run GAA tournaments ever attempted and players are still talking about it three weeks after the event. In the extended podcast, we hear from each team on what the Aer Lingus International Hurling Festival meant to them. Irish players and officials based in Europe, America, Canada and Australia, speak candidly about the experience as do non-Irish players and officials from hurling beginners in Argentina and Germany, and the growing wealth of American players.
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# 600 Asian Gaelic Games ready to roll
GaelicSportsCast marks Podcast Numero 600 by remembering where we began four years ago, when focusing on the Gaelic sports scene far away to the east in the continent of Asia.
For the next three days, starting Friday Oct 11, in the beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, the biggest ever Asian Gaelic Games tournament throws-in with almost 50 teams from Manila to Mongolia participating in the 18th Fexco AGG at the Putrajaya Equestrian Park.
To get a sense of the occassion we spoke to Asian GAA Chairman Joe Trolan about this year’s event.
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# 599 London GAA Podcast
Emerald GAA Grounds, Ruislip, London. (Photo courtesy of London GAA).
In GaelicSportsCast Podcast we focus on all the latest news, results and previews from the City of London with London GAA PRO Declan Flanagan.
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# 598 European GAA makes history this weekend
Guernsey will represent Europe in a history making game on Saturday in Maastricht, Holland when taking on visitors Fenagh (Carlow, Ireland) in Europe’s first taste of Leinster Provincial Club championsip competition. (Photo courtesy of Brian Clerkin European GAA PRO).
In the Podcast with European GAA PRO Brian Clerkin, we’ll hear how Europe will make history on Saturday when participating in an Irish provincial championship for the first time, Gaelic football roots in Belgium and the game’s growing appeal in Italy and Galicia, Spain.
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# 597 NSW tops in football, Western Oz kings of hurling
Western Australia - 2013 Australasian State Hurling Champions. (Photo courtesy of Hurling Western Australia Facebook).
The fifth and final day of the 2013 Australasian State Games took place Sunday at Monarch Fields in Sydney with championship deciders in ladies and men’s football, and hurling.
It turned out to be an excellent day for the host state of New South Wales ladies and men’s football teams as they were once again crowned state champs while the hurlers of Western Australia showed their prowess when succesfully defending their title.
In the Podcast, Australasian GAA President Seamus Sullivan reviews final’s day action and this year’s championships.
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# 596 Victoria and NSW win in Sydney
NSW Australasian State Camogie Champions 2013. (Photo courtesy of NSW Facebook).
An action packed Day 4 of the Australasian State Games at Sydney’s Monarch Fields saw NSW claim the Camogie title while another thriller in the minor football championship saw holder’s Victoria win a fifth title in succession.
To hear about both of those games and what teams made it into the ladies and men’s football finals and the hurling decider, NSW GAA PRO Catherine Fleming gives us the lowdown on an exciting Day 4.
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# 595 Host state NSW into two finals
Day 3 of the Australasian State Games turned out to be a good Friday for the ladies and men’s footballers of New South Wales (NSW) as both teams made Sunday’s finals while other results of the day added further importance to Saturday’s last round in determining all finalists with a particularly close hurling championship.
NSW GAA PRO Catherine Fleming is back again to give us the rap on Day 3′s action and review of the finals in Camogie and Minor football tomorrow.
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