All Star Watson endures immigration nightmare

LIAM WATSON has outlined how US immigration officers detained him for three hours before allowing him to join his All Star hurling colleagues.

Watson, a 29-year-old joiner from Antrim was stopped at San Francisco Airport upon landing from Heathrow and told he had to go home as his visa was not in order.

“They said: ‘You have to go home’. They were for sending me home. I said: ‘I have just spent 10 hours flying here, my girlfriend is away on through, she doesn’t want to be on her own’. They thought I was coming out to try and work.”