Dedicated men of steel are excited about visit home

Five years living Stateside has given Micheál Lyons a distinctive American drawl but make no mistake he’s back where his heart is in Dublin this weekend. 

That sense of coming home will be shared by the 17 other Gaelic footballers that the Pittsburgh Celtics will field in the All-Ireland Junior Sevens in St Jude’s, Lyons’ home club.

That none of them were born nor have visited here before is irrelevant – for these second and third generation Irish-Americans, this week has been one of discovery and belonging.