Brendan Crawley

Brendan Crawley talks about his many adventures whilst involved with the GAA. He grew up in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, and played with Inniskeen Grattans at all levels. He spent some time living in Liverpool and played with the John Mitchel's club. He moved to Dublin, where he worked as a teacher at an inner city primary school. There he and a few others started up a GAA club, Matt Talbot's. They started running an exchange programme with the John Mitchel's club in Liverpool and with other clubs in England, which helped develop the underage GAA scene over there. Later he brought the Matt Talbot's club to the United States and in time he and his wife moved to Boston. He kept up his involvement in the GAA and has had numerous teams from Ireland visit over the years - many of them staying at his home, which became known as 'The House of Ireland'. Brendan's methods are unconventional and he will often take a gamble in order to get things done. He has a great rapport with the youth and their well-being means a great deal to him. Life is rarely dull when Brendan is around.