New York GAA Roundup: Seamus Sweeney to manage NY All-Stars

As the year goes on we will see the panel take shape and have a further look at both it and the management team. Any one that runs for a job wants it, however once the decision is made we all need to jump in and support it.

 

New York Stars Still Playing

By Eugene Kyne

WE all take a look at the score lines each week to our native counties when the club seasons are in full swing. While the Holy Grail is the county side, of course, that is for the few, the proud.

The club scene is where we all at one stage or another, be it under-10s as minors or on the senior team before the immigration bug took hold, pulled on the home colors.

For me the black and white of Turlough still holds pride of place for hurling, with Martin Naughton, Frank Burke, Franny Forde, P.J. Qualter and Pakie Burke all household names in Galway circles for their dominating performances for club and then county.

Football wise we went across to Claregalway where we battled against the more powerful football clubs over the years. They have now graduated to senior level in Galway with Barry Cullinane, a hurler for Turlough and a footballer for the parish and Galway seniors. Danny Cummins is an up and coming superstar, with Adrian Faherty and Brian Donoghue both goalies that have represented Galway at the highest level.

On the club front the All-Ireland titles at junior and intermediate level are up for grabs this weekend, with Castlegregory (Kerry) taking on Kiltimagh (Mayo) in the junior contest and Spa (Kerry) going up against Cookstown (Tyrone) in the inter.

Some former New York stars are on display for these clubs, with Pa Murphy of Kerry and New York fame at midfield for Spa, while Michael (Stam) O’Donaghue lines out at full forward. Stam won a county title with Kerry in 2006, with Murphy and Dan Doona as teammates.

Spa had a very impressive win over Maynooth in the semifinal and will start favorites in their contest at Croke Park this Sunday.

The junior final, to paraphrase Patrick Kavanagh, is a game between the fishermen from the Maherees Peninsula and the farmers from Kiltimagh. I need to thank a certain Castlegregory man for that. A Moore than capable man with the pen.

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