Ahead of Ireland v Argentina we meet the Irish GAA community in South America

EASY like a Sunday morning. And Buenos Aires does them easier than most places. So when little Luisa Marie Connery, all 15 months of her, accompanies her father Michael into a drinking den on Sunday morning draped in a tricolour, few will bat an eyelid.

Ahead of Ireland v Argentina we meet the Irish GAA community in South America

Ireland and Argentina will go into combat in Cardiff with a World Cup semi-final in the balance. On the other side of the world, in enemy territory but a land where the Irish are far from alien, a father and daughter will be all in green.

“She’ll be supporting Ireland for sure,” Michael Connery, who has lived in Argentina for seven years now, tells the Irish Examiner. “We’re outnumbered, so we need her!”

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