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The Delco Gaels Gaelic athletic organization is holding a “Dance Like a Star” event to raise money to send their kids to Chicago for the championships. They’re looking for a few volunteers to enter this DWTS-like dancing contest. Do you have game?

A local fight fan makes sure that Philly’s boxing greats, like Irish-American boxer Eddie Cool, are never forgotten, though they’re gone. Meet John DiSanto and his “Gravestone Program.”

Philly’s own ladies Gaelic football team wins the North American title in San Francisco.

The afternoon GAA Irish football championships started out so peacefully. For Irish football, that is. The St. Patricks faced Eire Og in junior-C, with the Pats winning. After that, the Kevin Barrys and the Naomh Peregrines faced off in the senior match, played in an Olney monsoon. The Barrys won.

Naomh Peregrine and Chaoimhín de Barra face off in between downpours at Cardinal Dougherty field.

The Delco Gaels brought home the trophy from the Continental Youth Athletic Games in Boston this month. The club sent more than 100 kids to compete in this annual event. More news on engagements, upcoming weddings, Irish pageants, honorees and even new babies!

The Irish have played the game of hurling for thousands of years, and here in Philadelphia for decades. Now, with fewer Irish players, Yanks are joining the Philadelphia Shamrocks.

No one is sure of the final score. At the end of Saturday’s game at Northeast High School, nobody much cared. But if you were looking for a way to spend a summer afternoon, you couldn’t do much better than to watch hurling with the local boys.