The New York GAA is dearly hoping to celebrate its 90th anniversary of playing at Gaelic Park with a first-ever Connacht Championship victory over Leitrim on Sunday, but win or lose, the local association has big plans in the next year that will completely change the look of the venerable ground in the Bronx.
There will be two opportunities this coming weekend for the Irish to make history in America: the New York Gaelic football all-star team plays Leitrim in the opening round of the All-Ireland championship and Aidan O'Brien's horse Mendelssohn will race in the Kentucky Derby.
Conor McGregor is not happy that his UFC lightweight belt is being taken from him and he turned up at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn today to let them know about it. It is reported that a warrant is now out for McGregor's arrest.
On March 17, the Irish boxer took his sixth straight win since turning pro, returning to Madison Square Garden on the first-year anniversary of his St. Patrick’s Day professional debut.
