New York selector Pat Scanlon admits that a major question mark hangs over the team's future participation in the Connacht football championship. The Exiles were on the receiving end of a 18-point drubbing from Sligo last year and a similar result against Leitrim at Gaelic Park on Sunday could signal the death knell for their future involvement in the championship. The Celtic Tiger economy and the difficulties the Irish have in securing US visas have hit the GAA in the Big Apple hard, and Scanlon is fearful for the future. "With county football going so well and the club scene so important at home, no players are coming out anymore. And if they do, it's only for the summer. People just don't emigrate anymore," he said. "To be honest, I think they'll stay in it (the Connacht championship) for another two or three years and they'll have a serious look at it after that. Maybe they'll enter the junior All-Ireland or something like that." Tweet

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