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Francisco. “The sport is certainly growing in places like Dallas, Houston, St Louis and Buffalo where there has been clubs established in all these places over the last few years. The reason for this is that there are more professionals coming out from Ireland. What I mean by that is you would have your accountants, solicitors, doctors and so on all getting work in these places. Whereas before this, the majority of people coming over were involved in the building trade and they would have come to places like New York and Boston where they were guaranteed work.” Two thousand and fourteen is a big year for the Boston Board as the AllStars once again head Stateside, while the North American finals will also be held there next year. “We have a lot going on in 2014. It is a great honour to have the All-Stars back here and we look forward to welcoming them once again. We also have the North American finals on and that is a big occasion as well. Teams from all over the country will come to the city for the finals, which will be played over the course of the weekend.”
The Aidan McAnespies senior side
A proud Meath man, John continues to follow the fortunes of the Royals very closely and indeed the club scene in the county as well. “I was home for the All-Ireland football final this year and I would always be logging on to LMFM to listen to club games and hearing the results from over there. “There have been a lot of footballers from Meath out here in Boston playing with the McAnespies club. We’ve had county players such as Kevin Reilly, Caoimhin King, Peadar Byrne, Donncha Tobin and Daithi Regan, while others from Meath that have
been here include Denis Kealy, Mickey Rennicks, Nigel Regan, Gavin and Benny Murphy, Ronan Farrelly, Paddy Coakley, Brian Perry, Padraig Geoghegan, Rory Maguire, David Donegan, Declan Traynor and Alan Nestor. I’ve probably left one or two out, but there has been a lot. “Meath had a good run this year and hopefully they can build on that. Mick O’Dowd seems to be doing a good job and it will take time to get back where many feel we should be, but hopefully it will happen sooner rather than later.”
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