Saturday evening’s All Ireland Hurling final is to be screened live on Etihad Airways’ fleet of long haul aircraft. This follows a positive response to the showing of the first match on September 7th.
The game will also be shown via GAAGo at iFest, a major festival for the Irish in North America to be held in Boston at the weekend and attended by Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe.
This is a new venture, established by Dubliner Rachel Kelly which hopes to attract up to 40,000 Boston natives over the coming weekend to celebrate different aspects of Irish heritage and culture.
Aer Lingus, Guinness, Jameson and the Government are among the groups that have supported the event and the fact of having the Hurling final replay live, at what will be a perfect time of early afternoon is a real bonus for the crowd who will be there.
The food sector will be well represented and there will be appearances from Riverdance, Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains and a strong contingent of writers.
It’s only right that sport, which plays such an important role in community life here, and among the communities of Irish who live abroad should be represented, and the replay gives a serendipitous opportunity to put it front and centre stage.
It is also to be hoped that the Ladies Football final between Cork and Dublin on Sunday will also be shown. There will be extra interest at iFest by virtue of the fact that New York are to contest the Junior final though the early throw in for that game will not be in time to capture the bulk of attendees on the final day.
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