This Irish AmericaSeptember 27, 2018by Irish Echo Staff
The Michael Collins Gaelic Football Club from Alexandria, Virginia, celebrate their victory in the US GAA Football National Championship. The club won the Junior D Division, open to teams without Irish-born players, at the U.S. GAA Championship in Philadelphia. The victory by the Alexandria-based Michael Collins, founded in 2008, marked a major expansion for Gaelic football in Northern Virginia, with the establishment of a youth program earlier this year. Photo courtesy Tom Doyle.
