For this article though we are going to look at teams from outside of Ireland and Britain and look the other direction, to Canada and to Argentina. Yes, I said Argentina, let me explain. Hurling in Canada and Argentina have took off recently with expats from Ireland going over to the respective Nations and setting up in this case Hurling teams. Hurling seems to be the main GAA sport in these two areas. Let’s check out why it would be good at least for Canada and Argentina.





Firstly, one of the main aspects that would work out in their favour would be, these two area’s would get more exposure in GAA circles. Let’s start off with Canada, Canada has three divisions firstly that take part in Hurling. The first is the Toronto Divisional Board which encompasses Toronto, Brampton and Durham. Next is Eastern Canada which includes: Vancouver, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton Fraser Valley and Winnipeg. Finally, you have the Western Canada Division which houses Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Prince Edward Island and St Johns.

As you can see, Hurling is thriving in Canada. If I was over the GAA Board and wanted to expand, I would definitely pick Canada, but I would pick from Canada, Toronto GAA. They seem to be the team that is thriving in the area and therefore are the team best equipped to make the step up to challenge themselves against the best in Ireland and Britain.

Onto Argentina and yet again through the ingenuity of the Irish expats that have made their way to Argentina over the year’s the Argentina Hurling Club has been formed. They are the one and only GAA club in not just Argentina, but South America also. South America seemed to be the only region that the GAA haven’t expanded greatly into and to my mind, they are missing a trick.

Nevertheless, we continue on and take a look at the Hurling Club of Buenos Aires. They not only play hurling and Gaelic football, but they also play Tennis and Hockey. They have hosted many an Irish team who have gone down to Argentina to host “invitional” matches, especially against the Irish Rugby teams. To my mind, if you gave Hurling Club of Buenos Aires the chance to play not only in Ireland but in the All Ireland Hurling Championship, they would definitely not say no.

Just like in Canada, it would give hurling a bigger platform to grow onto in Argentina, give it more exposure worldwide and also, possibly help expand hurling not only in Argentina, but also in South America as a whole.

We would like to finish this article by asking you, would you take Toronto GAA and Hurling Club de Buenos Aires in the All Ireland Hurling Championship? If not, please feel free to suggest another Club.

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