Emigrant GAA team in good health

FOR St Anthony’s women’s Gaelic football team, getting 15 players on the pitch is not a problem — it’s cutting people from the panel.

Yesterday the team, made up of nurses working at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading in England, played an exhibition match against Fr Murphy’s of London at half time in the Premiership rugby match between London Irish and Sale Sharks at Madejski Stadium.

Remarkably, more than 150 Irish nurses are now either training or working at the hospital, meaning up to 30 players turn up for coaching sessions.