Mayo will get funding of €65,000 for their 2014 Connacht championship clash with New York.

The money will come from a combination of Connacht Council and the New York GAA Board, while Mayo may also have to raid their own coffers to fund some of the trip. (The €65k is based on a travelling party of 41 and Mayo could opt to bring up to 30 players plus up to 20 backroom members.)

Reacting to news that Leitrim's cross-Atlantic trip in 2013 had cost them over €94,000, Connacht Council secretary John Prenty was of the opinion that too many people were brought:

"They think they're going on their holidays and they have to bring Paddy and Mick and Jack," he told The Mayo News.

"If they were going to play the Connacht championship in Hyde Park, they'd bring 40 fellas, but they bring 60 to New York.

"If it's costing them that much, it's their own fault. We calculated that the official party can be brought for €65,000. Anybody above that, that's not our problem." Tweet

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