Earlier this month, Mulcahy collected a Liberty Insurance Camogie All-Star — her first after 15 years of breaking scoring records with Limerick.

Sligo survived a brief but real scare in the Bronx tonight before their experience and class told late on to see off a spirited New York.

With the All Star footballers flying into New York today for the first time since 1990, it’s worth going back to the first trip in 1975 which involved a unique exhibition remembered with affection around here.

NEXT year’s All-Ireland Championships are set to kick-off with a whimper rather than a bang when Connacht champions Roscommon travel to face New York in their provincial senior football opener on May 1 after GAA chiefs yesterday released their official fixture list for the 2011 season.

THE GAA is to look into upgrading Gaelic Park in New York, through the development of an all-weather pitch and the installation of floodlighting.