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Video: Damien O’Brien from the Cross finds ‘the heart of the GAA’ in Los Angeles

written by Alan Foley May 31, 2016
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DAMIEN O’BRIEN FROM outside Ballybofey is lining out for the Wild Geese Gaelic Football team in Orange County, Los Angeles.

O’Brien, from the Cross, captained the Geese defeated the Austin Celtic Cowboys to win the Mens Junior Football title in the West Coast Sevens in San Diego.

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“In the last two to three years we’ve been working hard and this year we’ve been training since January,” O’Brien, who appears to have lost his Donegal accent, said. “We just put it together and we set out to win this West Coast Sevens and it’s all worth it now.”

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Video: Damien O’Brien from the Cross finds ‘the heart of the GAA’ in Los Angeles was last modified: May 31st, 2016 by Alan Foley
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MA in Journalism graduate from NUI Galway and BBS Marketing and NC in Online Marketing from LyIT, who has worked covering sport in Donegal since 2004. Part of Donegal Democrat who won McNamee awards in 2013 and 2015 for 'best provincial publication'. Reseacher for 'Jimmy's Winnin' Matches' documentary and Rory Kavanagh's autobiography 'Winning'

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