‘Come on the village!’ – How a blow-in Dub found community and connection in Sallins through the GAA club championship

‘Come on the village!’ – How a blow-in Dub found community and connection in Sallins through the GAA club championship

‘Once you ended up at the GAA club, that was it,” Sallins GAA chairperson Fergal Nugent reflects. “You sort of got roped in after that.” That’s certainly been true for me. Fifteen years ago, myself and Stephen Leonard – two natives of Tallaght in Dublin – were working for The Echo newspaper when we were joined by Laura Donnelly. Now on the airwaves with Today FM, Donnelly spent part of her childhood in Dublin but moved to the small village of Sa…