Posts Tagged ‘football’
#307 NY Tyrone looking to the future
In today's podcast GaelicSportsCast continues its series profiling GAA clubs in the New York region when looking at the New York Tyrone Gaelic Football club out of the Bronx. NY Tyrone fields both Junior and Senior squads and while this year was a tough one for the juniors it was a magnificent year for the seniors who finished the league top of [...]
#299 Setanta GFC reaching out to mainstream America
This week in our continuing focus on the Gaelic Sports scene in the New York area, GaelicSportsCast looks at a new and very interesting club in Westchester County, the Setanta Gaelic Football Club. Founded just three short years ago, the club affiliated to the New York GAA Minor Board, set out from the start to broaden the scope of the player [...]
European GAA announces itself on Irish stage
Today is something of a milestone for the GAA as for the first time ever the final round of this year's Pan European Gaelic Football Championship throws in this morning on Irish soil in the city of Limerick. Europe GAA since its foundation over a decade ago, with a half dozen teams, has seen phenomenal growth rate over the past few years with [...]
#294 Hong Kong, Singapore and Mongolia Khans impress at Asian Gaelic Games
Gaelic Sports are thriving around the world at present as was clearly seen at the recent Fexco 2011 Asian Gaelic Games when the largest ever contingent of teams gathered at Suwon City outside Seoul in South Korea for the popular annual event. Hosted in a different city each year, the Asian Gaelic Games (AGG) since its foundation 15 years ago [...]
#289 Mighty Queensland’s triumphant return
What a time it turned out to be for Queensland GAA both on and off the field at the Australasian Gaelic Games, Brisbane last week. After the Biblical floods of last January that gutted the club house and destroyed playing facilities, it was nothing short of a miracle that last week the men, women, children and players from the GAA community at [...]
#288 New York fall short in replay
The All Ireland Ladies Junior Football Final replay ended in disappointment for the ladies from New York yesterday at Croke Park, as Wicklow proved a bridge too far for a very determined and never say die Big Apple outfit. It was a great trial of the New York ladies to be there at all as this was their third trip in six weeks across the [...]
#281 Den Haag, Belgium and Amsterdam lead way after Pan Europe 1
About this time in Europe each year, Gaelic sports enthusiasts are thick on the ground as it marks the beginning of the first round of the mens and ladies European football championship series. All summer long in the six regions that comprise Europe GAA: North West Bretagne, North West, Iberia, Scandinavia, Benelux, and, East and Central, teams [...]
#279 Nationals – Podcast 2
In the second of our reports today on last weekend's North American GAA Finals, we here from NACB GAA PRO, Tim Flanagan. Tim takes us though all the championship games and finals we hadn't touched on in Podcast 1. 18:29
#278 Nationals Podcast 1 – Northeast and Canada perspectives
Today in the first of a two part podcast series, GaelicSportsCast looks back on last weeks 2011 North American GAA Finals. San Francisco GAA had the honor of hosting this year's Nationals where over three days from Sept 2-4 at their new facilities at Treasure Island, teams from all across America and Canada gathered for men's and ladies' [...]
#277 North American Nationals begin
Today in San Francisco we see the start of the principal competition for Gaelic sports in the US, the North American GAA National Finals. The event is being hosted this year by San Francisco GAA at their new facility, Pairc na nGael at Treasure Island and over the next three days some 85 teams from all across America will be joined by their [...]
