New York GAA is set to reap a financial windfall from on the back of the historic breakthrough win over Leitrim, chairperson Joan Henchy has revealed.
The dramatic penalty shootout victory at Gaelic Park in the Bronx on Saturday night set up a Connacht semi-final away to Sligo on Saturday week, with Henchy and her fellow county board officers currently in the thick of the logistics to take a travelling party of 50 or so across the Atlantic.
“The flights and the accommodation we’re working on right now,” she said. “We were smart enough to put a hold for a group booking before this just in case so now we just need names to get it done.
