The Bright Future For Ladies Gaelic Football In New York

‘With Covid, we had a massive membership increase’ says Simon Gillespie when commenting on the recent stats that over 1000 girls are playing Gaelic Football in New York this year. Simon reflects that ‘it is an amazing moment for us since LGFA started with just 12 people in a room figuring out if we could get a club team 30 …

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The ‘thunderbolt moment’ where Gaelic football in New York changed forever  

As part of an exclusive documentary produced by Her Sport; Simon Gillespie, Rosie O’Reilly, Margaret Brady, Nollaig Cleary, take us through the epic journey of women’s Gaelic football in New York and the creation of the NY LGFA.  It all started in the 1980s when 25 thousand Irish women immigrated to New York to escape the Irish recession. From that …

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