Liam Sheedy hopes Saturday’s game between Antrim and Tipperary to open Davitt Park on Belfast’s Falls Road can generate more promotion for Gaelic games in the city and county.
Gaelfast, the €1m five-year initiative to bolster the engagement levels with the GAA in Belfast and the county under the stewardship of Paul Donnelly, has already seen foundations laid across all communities in the city.
Sheedy’s association with Antrim stems back to 2017 when he assisted with their Celtic Challenge team.
That same year, he was approached by his fellow Hurling 2020 committee member Sambo McNaughton and Gary O’Kane who convinced him to help out McNaughton’s senior hurling backroom team in July 2017 and he remained a part of the set-up for the 2018 season.
His fellow Portroe man Darren Gleeson, who Sheedy brought in as goalkeeping coach in 2018, is now manager and Sheedy’s affection for the county is obvious.
“When I was up there I went into the social centre in Casement Park and when Darren and myself were in there they played ‘Slievenamon’.
“There’s a really good core of GAA people up there and it’s sad when you see what Casement Park has turned into over the last couple of years.
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