Last year I had the opportunity to shoot my first GAA Gaelic Football match, at the time I had never even heard of Gaelic Football, but I had a great time covering the game between Sligo and New York. When I received the call this year to cover the Connacht SFC Quarter-Final match between Leitrim and New York this year I was downright excited. It’s a pretty wild sport to cover, a mixture of soccer, Australian rules football and basketball, while the setting inside Gaelic Park is more the atmosphere of a tailgate than a sporting event with grills creating smoke and smells that linger over the field, a lot of Irish folk with beer and elevated train cars.
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