{"id":539122,"date":"2026-07-08T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:39:09","slug":"44-high-profile-gaa-stars-playing-gaelic-football-in-america-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539122\/","title":{"rendered":"44 High Profile GAA Stars Playing Gaelic Football In America This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"270\">From Dublin to Donegal, inter-county stars are swapping their Irish surroundings for summer stints in America. Here are the 44 biggest GAA names heading stateside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"270\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">With the inter-county season now over for all but the All-Ireland semi-finalists, many of the country&#8217;s top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GAA<\/a> stars have once again made the annual pilgrimage across the Atlantic to play Gaelic football in America.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"453\">Every summer, clubs in New York, Boston, Chicago and beyond bolster their ranks with inter-county stars, making for some remarkably stacked team sheets and fascinating match-ups. We already saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/gaa\/donegal-boston-star-studded-gaa-team-658694\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one particular Boston club roll out a stellar lineup in recent days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"619\" data-is-last-node=\"\">With the transfer window now closed, here are some of the biggest names swapping the Irish championship for GAA in the United States over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone, Armagh And Donegal Stars Lead 44-Strong GAA Exodus To America This Summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Dublin to Donegal, inter-county stars are swapping their Irish surroundings for summer stints in America. Here are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4183,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-539122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}