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Jarlath Regan: It may be aggressively windswept and rain-sodden, but GAA is our beautiful game

Love for the GAA passed us by, until the passion and purpose hit home during an intense and dramatic school county championship

‘The passion was intense, the drama worthy of the big screen; the attempted comeback and the knock-out punch left us in no doubt. We get it now. This is our beautiful game’

I don’t know what happened while I was away, but when I came back to Ireland the GAA had become more than a game. When I left it was of course popular to the point of hysteria, but something shifted in the ten years since I moved to England.

When I left, GAA jerseys were something you wore on a match day or on a trip to America on a J1. When I returned, the ...