The old school shut another one of its doors when Johnny Murphy passed away in February.

GAA chiefs have drafted a new rule to prevent players from abandoning their counties for New York following early Championship defeats.

New York will host one of the National League finals as part of their county board’s centenary celebrations in 2014.

All-Ireland finalists Mayo have been hit with a €10,000 fine for not travelling to New York for the final of the Connacht FBD League last month.

In the basement of a Yonkers pub, aspiring hurling coaches from the New York area gathered around coffee cups and notepads early last Saturday morning.

The annual Connacht FBD League final between New York and winners of the domestic competition will not go ahead as planned next week.

Since 1959, the seemingly impossible task of deciding a North American senior football champion has challenged the overseers of the GAA across the US and Canada.

WHEN does an All-Ireland adventure become a burden?

New York's minor footballers will face Roscommon in the ESB Connacht Minor Football Championship at Croke Park on Saturday (throw-in 3pm), in the curtain raiser to the Allianz Football Leagues Division 3 and 4 finals.

WHEN Eddie Hogan emigrated to New York in 1985, he was leaving behind a different kind of famine.

GAA chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic last night reiterated that the New York board fully support a decision to abandon stadium development plans for the Randall’s Island site in the big apple.