Myanmar opens heart to GAA

Gaelic games flower in Asian country once reluctant to embrace the outside world.

With thousands of people leaving the country in the last few years GAA clubs abroad have been booming, and not just in the traditional enclaves like Kilburn or Dorchester.

One of the most recent additions to the GAA family has been Myanmar Celts in what used to be called Burma, now Myanmar, a country only now opening up to foreign influences.