Posts Tagged ‘gaelic park’
#284 Tyrone and Leitrim into final as NY Dubs’ crowned intermediate champions
The place to be for followers of Gaelic sports in the 'Big Apple' was at Gaelic Park in the Bronx last weekend as this year's New York Intermediate Football Championship was decided as well as the not so small matter of finding out what two teams would reach this year's senior football championship final. On Saturday, the Dubs and the Kingdom [...]
#282 NY Monaghan are Junior ‘Big Apple’ champs
At Gaelic Park yesterday in the Bronx, NY we had an exciting finale for the first of the men's football championship titles when NY Monaghan edged out a never-say-die NY Celtics in the Junior Football Championship decider. The only game on the card in Gaelic Park Sunday pitted the number one and two junior seeds this summer with last year's [...]
#229 Thrilling college ‘Nationals Day 1
Day 1 of the first ever US National Collegiate Hurling finals saw some thrilling action yesterday at Gaelic Park in Chicago. In Game 1 of a seven-side round robbin format in the historic competition, UC Berkeley from California, took on Indiana University and in an exciting game, the midwest team of Indy edged home by a single point 3-08 to [...]
#138 NY Dublin edge Kerry to make semi’s
It was quarter finals day for New York junior and intermediate footballers last Sunday at Gaelic Park in the Bronx. The most exciting game of the day was the second intermediate quarter final between Dublin and Kerry. In an 8 goal thriller, Dublin looked to be pulling away in the second period, however, 14 man NY Kerry produced a brilliant rally [...]
Boston and Chicago schedules hit by weather
Last week saw Sydney and Chicago having to postpone their GAA schedules, and while Sydney luckily got the first round of the NSW Championship up and running this past weekend, heavy rain once more was responsible for the cancellation of games at Gaelic Park in Chicago. This is the second weekend in a row that Chicago has been hit with heavy [...]
#59 NY Leitrim going for three in a row
At Gaelic Park in the Bronx yesterday, New York Leitrim's win over Down in the semi final of the Ned Devine Cup in mens football, puts them in with a chance to claim their third successive title. A late push secured them the win over last year's Championship winners. In the other semi final Cork had to rely on the exploits of one Vinnie [...]
#55 Cork and Leitrim lead way in Big Apple
In the final round in the group stages of the Ned Devine Cup at Gaelic Park in the Bronx over the weekend, Cork and Leitrim with wins over Cavan and Kerry, finish top of their respective groups. Meeting them in the semi's will be second place finishers Tyrone and Down, who also recorded wins over Sligo and Donegal respectively. On Sunday we [...]
# 41 – New York edge out Boston in football challenge
In preparation for their upcoming Connacht Football Championship clash with Galway in two weeks time in Gaelic Park in the Bronx, New York played Boston in a challenge match over the weekend in Canton, MA. Even though the Big Apple took the spoils, reporter Eugene Kyne says that New York have a lot of work to do between now and the Galway game on [...]
#30 – Brilliant new book a tour de force on Gaelic sports in America – Part 1
Northern Ireland academic, author and former Antrim footballer, Paul Darby who is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sports Studies at the University of Ulster in Belfast, has written a brilliantly researched work and insightful account of the history of Gaelic Games in America entitled, "Gaelic Games, Nationalism and the Irish Diaspora in the [...]
#19 Gaelic Park revamp and minors’ return great boost for New York
In the last of our current series profiling clubs and reporting on the Gaelic games scene across America, GaelicSportsCast visits that iconic and vibrant metropolis, New York City. Over the past two centuries, the Big Apple has been home to one of the largest Irish emigrant communities in the US where places like the former Celtic Park in Queens [...]
