Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Role and Interaction of GAA with the Diaspora: GAA

2:30 pm

Photo of Pat BreenPat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have been all over the world in the presentations but one country was not mentioned. Ireland is doing a great deal of business with China. For example, the beef market was recently opened to us and our exports to the country are at an all-time high. There was a high profile visit of the then Vice-President of China, now President, Mr. Xi Jinping, to Croke Park. When we visited China two years ago, he told us that the picture of him playing football in Croke Park is on his office wall. Has the GAA been in contact with the diaspora in Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong to promote Gaelic games?

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