GAELIC SPORTS WORLD Issue 2 Sample Test, June 5, 2014 | Page 12

BOSTON NORTHEAST GAA
MAY 18 – MAY 25, 2014,
Rory O’Donnell

The Boston Northeast GAA
early season competition in men’s
football, the Pat O’Brein Cup,
reached its penultimate round on
May 18 with two teams coming
through to make this year’s final.
Donegal, who had a good run
from the start of this cup, faced
off in the first semi-final against
the Boston Northeast 2013 Championship winners, Connemara
Gaels who had also looked sharp.
It turned out to be a thriller and
had to go to Over Time with Donegal doing enough in the end to
win by 1-13 to 1-11. In the second semi, we had Kerry looking like a team that meant business all through the competition
while their opponents were the
steady Shannon Blues. An early
goal gave Kerry the initiative and
they never looked back limiting
the Blues to a solitary point in the
second half. Donegal and Kerry’s
championship meeting scheduled
for June 15 will act as the final.
The following week marked
Memorial Day weekend at Canton, MA and it was fitting that
the Barley House Wolves Junior
C Hurling Team – a club formed
by US combat veterans returning
from Iraq through Shannon Airport, Ireland in 2005 – were honoured by the Boston Northeast
for their role in promoting hurling throughout the New England
region.
The holiday weekend also
kicked-off the opening rounds of
this year’s Boston Northeast GAA
Men’s Football Championship
with four games on the schedule.

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Tones and Macs in action at sunny Canton. (Photo: Rory O’Donnell)