Remembering the four New York GAA men who died on 9/11

Four New York GAA men who were tragically killed at the World Trade Centre in New York City 20 years ago will be remembered on Saturday at Croke Park

A US flag is placed near a victim's name at the September 11 Memorial at Ground Zero. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

When the Meehan brothers were growing up in New York in the 1970s and 80s, their Inwood neighbourhood was holding on stubbornly to its Irish identity.

Manhattan’s northernmost outpost clung most dearly to its GAA club, Good Shepherd. It was named after the local parish church on Broadway and it flourished thanks to a populous first-generation offspring of the Irish immigrants who flocked there in the 50s and 60s.