GAELIC SPORTS WORLD Issue 21 – March 14, 2015 | Page 42

GAA SPREADING WINGS
MARCH 12, 2015
BY ROB HARTNETT

Rob Hartnett looks at last weekend’s
World Games in terms of opportunity
and highlights TV sports documentary
The Toughest Trade.
Dublin’s Double Header at Croke Park
against Cork and Tyrone will have attracted a bigger crowd and more column inches but the World GAA Games
which took place in Abu Dhabi the
same weekend will be of greater long
term importance in the future development of the GAA.
Representatives from Argentina, Asia,
Australia, Europe, the United States,
Canada, South Africa and the Middle
East competed in the first event of its
kind, made possible through the partnership of Etihad Z\