Kids in America: Why the GAA's transatlantic traffic will only get busier

It leaves players in an uneasy situation of informing their club of their intention to go away. However, with club championships kicking in later now, there is little real risk attached

HIGH STANDARD: Conor Meyler with Sean Powter of Cork during the football championship in Chicago.

There's a great old yarn that resurfaced on an All-Stars trip a few years back on America's east coast.

It centred on one of the crew of Ulster footballers in the early ‘90s that, after their Championship came to an end, went off to America on a sanction to play for the summer.