A third trip home for the Fighting Irish

Navy will once again be the nominal hosts as Notre Dame makes the trip to Dublin in 2020, following the announcement of a five-game series in Aviva Stadium. Emmet Ryan on the proposed new string of American football games in Dublin

How best to sell American college football in Ireland?Pic: INPHO/Billy Stickland

Afive-game American football series has been announced for Dublin with one marquee match-up kicking things off and, my, how it evokes some memories. It also brings up a bunch of questions about selling college games to the Irish market - or indeed getting people from the US to travel here for games. But first, to the memories.

In 2012 Notre Dame came to Dublin and - bedecked in an Hawaiian shirt, honouring star ...