Granted, the pitch isn’t anything to write home about but you’ll go a long way to find more scenic GAA grounds in the world than in Inis Turk, an island off the coast of County Mayo.
As our native games are alive and well throughout the world, you don’t have to venture too far in some of the world’s biggest cities to find a GAA pitch, but what they might have in glamour, they lack the natural beauty of the GAA grounds in Inis Turk in County Mayo, a photo of which was posted on Twitter by Laurence Mackin of the Irish Times earlier today.
The greatest GAA pitch in the world pic.twitter.com/RL1oXpprE0
— Laurence Mackin (@LaurenceMackin) August 2, 2013
Sure the surface is patchy at best, it looks a little narrow and the left hand sideline appears to curve dramatically inward at the bottom corner, but playing an actual game in a location like this would almost be secondary to just appreciating the beauty of the surroundings.
From a completely biased perspective, the only thing that could make this more complete for Mayo GAA folk, of which your humble author is one, is James Horan and the Mayo squad paying a visit with Sam in tow come the end of September, but we’ll see how this weekend goes first.
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