Boston Interpro scores highly with GAA president

THE feelgood factor around Boston on Sunday last, after Munster pipped Leinster in a high-quality Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Championship hurling final, was in marked contrast to the poisoned atmosphere in Australia at the conclusion of the International Series.

Boston Interpro scores highly with GAA president

At the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton, outside Boston, two teams went toe to toe for the full 70 minutes, but the attitude of the players, on both sides, was exemplary. The scores of local kids who had enjoyed a coaching session with Tipperary’s Eoin Kelly that morning (out with an arm injury for the game itself) and who took to the field immediately after the presentation of the cup to Munster captain John Gardiner, got the right example of what the Interprovincial Championship is about. It was extremely competitive but played in the right spirit.

“That’s the major beauty of taking the Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Championship abroad, it is competitive, and it will remain competitive,” said GAA President Sean Kelly. “Everything revolves around that, and the more competitive the better, the more it means for teams to win, then the more effort is put in on the field of play, and that works to the benefit of everyone. It means the intensity is there, the desire, which adds to the skill levels, the drama. That’s crucial.”

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