Gaelic Football Meeting in Kansas City
On Sunday, March 30, 2008 there is an open meeting to establish a new Gaelic Football Club in the Kansas City metro area.
This is a public meeting and anyone with an interest in Gaelic Football or Irish culture is encouraged to attend. Experience is not necessary as there are many important ways to contribute without being a player on the pitch.
Update: Meeting a success; training begins
I haven’t played this How Irish is Kansas City Really record for a while. This meeting is less than 2 weeks after hundreds of thousands of people will have professed themselves to be, on some level, Irish - not just at the parade but at hundreds of bars and parties all over the KC metro area.
In March at least a quarter of a million people in KC will celebrate their Irish heritage in an orgy of annual pride. If even one tenth of 1% of those people formed this Gaelic Football Club, you would have a very healthy sized organization that would allow people to celebrate their culture all year round.
However I believe people in KC prefer to talk about being interested in things Irish rather than actually doing things Irish-related.
For a couple of years I lived in England, in the city of Birmingham, which is comparable to KC in sprawl, in population size and in its percentage with Irish roots. There I watched dozens of teams play Gaelic Football every week. In Kansas City however I’ve watched a constant struggle to put just one full playing side of 15 people on a pitch. But then in KC almost none of the hundreds of thousands claiming to love things Irish, and/or to be Irish, turn up when Ireland’s premier sporting event, the All-Ireland Final in Gaelic Football, is shown live in an Irish pub.
The KC Gaelic Football club is co-ed, and I’ve read, already reflects a wide variety of age-groups.
The club plans on establishing regular games the next weekend after the meeting.
Time: 6pm Sunday, March 30, 2008
Location:
Redemptorist Church Senior Center
3333 Broadway St
Kansas City, MO 64111
The Kansas City Gaelic Football League
Cumann Peil Ghaelach KC
MySpace: www.myspace.com/kcgaelic
Email: craobhrua@gmail.com
Phone: 816.694.0347
This event has been posted on the Kansas City Irish Events calendar.
See Also:
• Irish Counties in Kansas City
• Ireland Lose Convincingly: I’m Convinced
• Ireland, Argentina and Germany
• Is Kansas City more Irish than the Cayman Islands?
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We had the meeting. About 12 total showed.
Hope it takes off…
here’s another link -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28156951216