New York looking to make history against Roscommon

The first ball in the GAA's championship summer will be kicked this weekend across the Atlantic as New York host reigning Connacht champions Roscommon at Gaelic Park.

Ireland's economic downturn has provided a boost to GAA clubs world wide as emigrants once again leave the country to find work and congregate around foreign units for their social, recreational and employment needs like generations before them and New York is no different.