Atlantic crossing now awaits New York’s finest

IN THIS TOGETHER: GAA president Larry McCarthy and New York GAA chairperson Joan Henchy speak to the New York players and management in the dressing room after their Connacht SFC quarter-final win over Leitrim at Gaelic Park on Saturday night. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

In the mess of joy and shock still fizzing around the humble Gaelic Park dressing rooms under the shadow off the subway service lines, Joan Henchy was ready to cry again.

The first female chairperson of the New York County Board, a notoriously divisive position around these parts, had travelled a long and bumpy road to the top job.