The North American / Canada GAA and Hurling thread

[Carmen Stateside]

John Fitzpatrick will be the referee, no other suspensions from what i hear, which is no big surprise.  They will be massive favourites but we will give it our best shot.

[rrhf]

Very saddened to hear of the passing of Charlie Dunlop Philadelphia, a great supporter of  Donaghmore, Tyrone and the GAA in Philadelphia over the years.  Charlie helped many a young lad find his feet, get a job and play a bit of football over in Philly throughout the years - one of the kindest Gaels left our shores. Will be greatly missed. RIP.   

[CorkBostonGFC]

If you are interested in playing football in Boston this summer, then please fill out the form on our club website: http://www.cork-boston-gfc.com/join_us.html

Cork Boston GFC (http://www.cork-boston-gfc.com) cater for both Boston-based players as well as players over for the summer. We field both senior and junior teams in the Boston championship.
The Boston senior standard is quite high, with teams typically fielding good senior standard players as well as inter-county underage players.

If you are coming to Boston this summer, then fill out the form with any questions you may have and someone from our club will reply in due course.

[youngirelandphiladelphia]

Young Ireland Gfc Philadelphia is seeking both base and sanction players for the upcoming season,

Philadelphia is hosting the north american finals in 2012 in what will be a highly competitive year,if interested in joining young ireland gfc add us on facebook(copy and past entire link) http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000737281869 send us a email with any questions you may have,

Young ireland gfc

[magpie seanie]

saw on another thread that Barry John Keane and Tommy Freeman are playing club football in New York - is that correct? More improtantly from my point of view - will they be playing for New York on May 5th against Sligo? I reckon we are in big trouble anyway but if they're picking up lads like these two....

[bigfrank]

That was last summer seanie..both have returned to their home counties..and neither will be involved v sligo so u can sleep easy

[magpie seanie]

That was last summer seanie..both have returned to their home counties..and neither will be involved v sligo so u can sleep easy

Thanks for clearing that up but I'll not rest easy 'til we get out of there with a win of any kind. Cheers!

[micksr]

Headed to Galway tonight, from Philly, (29/3/12), staying on the Square in Galway City. Any quiet pubs nearby where meself can while the day away with a pint?

[Carmen Stateside]

So things hadn't started to well for Leitrim in NY this year, well things about to get better for them with Jamie Clarke, Ciaran Mc Keever and Brendan Donaghy joining them this week. Wonder why they didn't go to the Armagh club?$?

[heffo]

Are the Kerry lads still with Leitrim or was it just the county manager thy fell out with?

[Carmen Stateside]

They still with them alright, they wouldn't appear for county training so I think they were asked to stay away.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

O'Neill's have started stocking merchandise of our club here

http://www.oneills.com/shop-by-team/gaa/international/canada/st-vincents-toronto.html

Screenexile - I know you will want some

[Carmen Stateside]

Senior football

Goals the clincher - Tyrone 5-14 Leitrim 1-08

Tyrone used the brilliance of Anthony McConville and Gregory Jordon to completely dominate Leitrim. The two combined for a total of 3-11 over the hour and were unmarkable. Leitrim had a 1-03 to 0-02 lead when Rory Woods converted a penalty after Cian Maher was fouled but then the magicians went to work. They both had first half goals as well as a brace of McConville points to push their team into a 2-05 to 1-05 half time lead. They continued the tirade in the second half. Pa Ryan made a great save on the full forward to stem the tide but the score of the game arrived when a long Jordon pass was pulled down by McConville who flicked to Conor McNabb who fired to the net. They added a further 2-06 to 0-01 as the game turned into a free scoring easy victory.

Leitrim 1 Pa Ryan 2 Mike Creegan 3 Kevin Meaney  4 Pat Glynn  5 Aiden Power (0-01)  6 Garth Bradshaw (0-01)7 Cathel Matthews 8 Eoghan Carew 9 Cian Maher 10 Ray O'Connor (0-01) 11 Paul McComiskey (0-01) 12 Dan Sullivan 13 Brian O'Connor 14 Rory Woods (1-02) 15 Dave Harvey Sub Rory Redican

Tyrone 1 Anthony O'Donaghue 2 Joe Bell  3 Johnny Jordon 4 Naill Maguire 5 Darren O'Hagan 6 Damo O'Sullivan 7 Liam Carthy  8 Conor McNabb (1-00)9 Darren Doherty 10 Ciaran McCoy 11 Phil Toner (0-02)12 Mattie Jordon 13 Peader McMahon (1-01)14 Anthony McConville (1-09)15 Greg Jordon (2-02) Subs John Power Michael Gallagher 

Man of the Match Greg Jordon (Tyrone)

Referee Martin O'Connor



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[Gabriel_Hurl]

St Vincents retained their Toronto Senior Championship yesterday with a 2-10 to 0-7 victory over St Mikes. 

[Eamonnca1]

Some weekend at the North American finals in Cleveland. San Francisco Ulster beat Boston Connemara Gaels in the senior football final. San Francisco Na Fianna beat Boston Tipp in the senior hurling final making it three-in-a-row for them. Great games in the lower grades where the players are all or mostly American-born and where the crowd makes ten times the noise because they're actually from the cities the teams represent.

Kudos to the local Cleveland GAA community who put on a great show and were very hospitable, raising the bar for anyone hosting the playoffs in future.

I'll post all the results in the morning. Goodnight from Ohio!