From Belgium to Brittany, the GAA is going all continental

IT’S a phenomenon we hoped we had seen the back of.

Indeed, such was the certainty that we encouraged and aided the GAA abroad to invest in promoting activity at youth level, especially in America and England, to ensure its very survival.

In fact, while waiting for these Native Americans and English lads to develop, many overseas clubs went out of existence. The reason? Emigration had dried up to such an extent that they couldn’t field teams. But all’s changed again.