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hurling and Gaelic football stars going abroad to play Australian football and work on construction sites in New York

was Gaelic football and hurling club in Dublin sleep with some of the most promising young actresses of sport in the Irish capital. But now the club is looking at his Gaelic Roundtower bleeding talent abroad, as the financial collapse and recession leads to the youth of Ireland to seek their future elsewhere.

On behalf of under 19 in early 2004, which contained some of the most promising pitchers and players in the Irish capital, as many as eight out of 15 migrated to the original past 18 months, most of them to Australia.

is part of a broader trend in which Ireland is to say goodbye to a generation with very little at home. The center of the Republic of the Statistical Office provided 50,000 people to leave the state later this year in search of work abroad. Australia and the United States are also popular destinations.

Many images on the walls of the clubhouse Roundtower are the human faces of this loss. The club has been in existence since 1884 - the same year he founded the Gaelic Athletic Association -. And has 450 members and young adults up to 800 pounds on his

look at a framed photo of the team in 2004, the club president Tony Delaney points to some of the star players of the time.

"It Eoin Moran playing with a top pitcher in Dublin, and there are relics of Mick was a minor player in the county as well. Both are in Australia now, "said Delaney. "The players, the team of children who were at their best pitchers now as top players."

remember the last recession in 1980, but refers to it as worse in terms of loss of players.

"Today it is much easier to migrate to Australia and the boys can be in immediate contact with family and friends. Lifestyle changes have made Australia more accessible. "

Alan Milton, who works at Croke Park, the Gaelic equivalent of Wembley Stadium, said that for the first time in 30 years of top flight players are leaving the country because of the rate Unemployment 14% more.
"You have one of the best pitchers of his generation as Shane Dooley who played for Offaly. I'm working on a play in New York. We meet with him next month when the GAA All-Stars (Gaelic sports team on tour) arrived in San Francisco for their tour. The loss of a star as he personifies the evil that is in Ireland today. "

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