Saturday, April 11, 2009

IN THE NEWS: Athletic ambassador teaches finer points of Gaelic football

Here's something you don't see in San Diego every day: a group of fourth-graders being put through their paces by a visitor instructing them on the finer points of Gaelic football, the national sport of Ireland. That's what happened one recent foggy morning at Cabrillo Elementary School, where Liam O'Neill was teaching students in a lilting Irish brogue as part of his mission to bring Gaelic football to the region. Read more from the San Diego Union-Tribune.