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N.Y. GAA cup found in Tuam dump

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

By Andrew Bushe

DUBLIN — A silver “World Cup” presented 64 years ago to the Galway GAA team in New York has been rescued from destruction at Tuam’s town dump just moments before it was broken up.

How the blackened cup ended up among the household refuse is a mystery as all the people who played in the 1934 championship matches are dead.

Caretaker Joe Burke spotted a local youth sorting metal objects for scrap and breaking them up. Among the old kettles and saucepans was a blackened object that he though would make a good flower pot. He brought it home to his wife, Ann, and when she cleaned it, the silver emerged, along with an inscription saying it had been presented to the Galway All-Ireland champions by Edward J Dempsey during a tour of the U.S.

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