New York City / Gaelic Games
GAA Bars
in NYC
Where to watch Gaelic football and hurling in New York, and which of those rooms will actually sell you a cheap pint.
Irish throw-ins land 9:30–11:30am New York time — The Westbury is the only happy hour on this page that is open that early.
- 18 pubs verified
- drafts from $7
- earliest door 7am
- 4 boroughs
The short version
- Best overallTara Mór – $8 drafts 4–6:30pm, 9am doors on final day, and the sound stays on.
- Deal that is live at throw-inThe Westbury – $7 drafts Mon–Fri 11am–6pm, and “open for all GAA matches” printed on their own menu.
- Best match-day foodThe Long Hall‘s $24 Sunday roast, or John Sullivan’s $20 full Irish, served all day from 8am.
- Best downtownThe Irish American Pub – Gaelic football and hurling weekly with full rights, all-day happy hour Mon–Fri.
- Know before you goIrish Rover in Astoria is the one listing anywhere on this page with a cover charge attached.
The best GAA bars NYC has right now are The Westbury on West 38th, Tara Mór by Penn Station, The Long Hall in Murray Hill and The Irish American Pub on John Street — the four rooms that commit to Gaelic football and hurling in writing and publish a happy hour you can actually check. Eighteen pubs are on this page across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, grouped by what you need on a match morning: a deal that is live, a door that opens early, or a room in your borough. Here is the awkward part nobody else says out loud. Irish throw-ins land in the New York morning and happy hour starts at four in the afternoon, so on most of this list the discount and the match never meet. We have said which is which on every card, and where a bar posts nothing we have said that too.
At a glance
Sorted by how much the deal is worth, strongest first. “Call first” is not a cop-out — it means the venue publishes nothing and we refuse to invent it.
| Bar | The deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Westbury | $7 draft, $7 vodka cans, $10 wells, $11 wine, $50 bucket of six | Mon–Fri | 11am–6pm | $$$ |
| Tara Mór | $8 all draft, $10 Aperol spritz, $12 wine / mule / margarita, two plates $26 | Mon–Fri | 4–6:30pm | $$$ |
| The Irish American Pub | All-day happy hour Mon–Fri — the venue publishes no prices | Mon–Fri | all day | $$$ |
| The Craic | HH 4–8pm; Trad Tuesday bangers or shepherd’s pie $15; Thu wings plus a Harp $20 | Tue–Fri | 4–8pm | $$$ |
| The Long Hall Pub and Grocery | $24 Sunday roast (sirloin or lamb); $9.50 boiled bacon and cabbage | Sun | all day | $$$ |
| John Sullivan’s | $20 All Day Irish Breakfast; no happy hour published | Daily | 8am–4am | $$$ |
| Connolly’s Pub and Restaurant | No published happy hour; 45 screens across three floors | Mon–Sat | 7am–4am | $$$ |
| Jack Jones | No cover on final day; food from 11:30am. Happy hour menu currently offline | Daily | 11am–3am | $$$ |
| Irish Haven | Match-day drinks promotions, no cover; no standing happy hour | Daily | 8am–4am | $$$ |
| The Dead Rabbit | No happy hour; final-day reservations open at 10am, walk-ins kept | Daily | 11am–2am | $$$ |
| Irish Rover | $20 GAA cover per MurphGuide, unconfirmed; no happy hour published | Mon–Sat | 8am–4am | $$$ |
| McGuinness’ Saloon | No published happy hour; no reliable published hours anywhere | Daily | call first | $$$ |
| The Dugout | No published happy hour; three sources give three sets of hours | Daily | call first | $$$ |
| Rogers Irish Tavern | No published happy hour, and no published hours anywhere | Daily | call first | $$$ |
| Rambling House | No happy hour; full Irish on the menu, live music after the match | Daily | 11am–2am | $$$ |
| Behan’s Public House | No published happy hour; hours are aggregator-sourced only | Daily | 10am–4am | $$$ |
| Connaughton’s Riverdale Steakhouse | No published happy hour; open noon to 4am, seven days | Daily | 12pm–4am | $$$ |
| An Beal Bocht Cafe | 25 years of trad sessions; a third-party happy hour claim we could not confirm | Daily | 11am–2am | $$$ |
Map: where these 18 pubs are
The cluster is Midtown between 30th and 45th, with a second run through Astoria, Sunnyside and Woodside on the 7, and a Bronx group around Katonah Avenue and Gaelic Park.
Pins are numbered to match the table above – tap any pin for the deal and directions.
GAA on the screens, a real deal at the bar
The four rooms that commit to Gaelic games in writing and publish a happy hour you can check. For everything else on a screen, see our best sports bars in NYC guide.
The Westbury On now
The verdict, and it is not close: this is the only bar in New York where the happy hour is still running when an Irish game is on. Their own 2026 happy hour menu carries a line across the top — Open for all GAA Matches — and the window underneath it reads Monday to Friday, 11am to 6pm. Throw-ins land here mid-morning. Do the arithmetic. It is $7 for a draft (Smithwicks, Bitburger, Coney Island IPA, Bud Light, Heineken), $7 for a Mulligan’s vodka can, $10 wells, $11 wine, $50 for a bucket of six High Noons. Open daily til 4am. The local move: the kitchen runs to midnight Tuesday through Friday but stops at 10pm Sunday and Monday, so eat before the second half. Honest caveat — parties of six get an automatic 18 percent gratuity.
Tara Mór On now
The most serious GAA room in Manhattan, and the only one that puts every promise in writing on its own site. Sixteen HD screens. Doors at 9am for breakfast ahead of throw-in. And the line that actually separates a GAA bar from a bar with a screen: the sound stays on for every championship game, no match shown on mute. They have been jersey sponsor of the Manhattan Gaels since 2024 and have carried every All-Ireland final live since then. The happy hour is a separate trip — $8 for any draft, $12 house wine or a margarita, $26 for any two plates, Monday to Friday 4 to 6:30. The local move: it is a block off Penn, so it is the one you can reach from Jersey or the LIRR without a transfer.
The Irish American Pub On now
Nobody else in the city states it this plainly on their own site: they screen Gaelic football and hurling weekly, with full rights, and all Irish games shown live. Weekly, not finals-only, is the whole distinction. Doors at 10am every day of the week, so the morning throw-ins need no special favour. Three rooms — the Shebeen, the Irish American and the Colony Cocktail Room — which means somewhere to go when the front bar fills up. The honest caveat: they advertise an all-day happy hour Monday to Friday and publish no prices for it anywhere, so ask at the bar before you order a round. Their separate sports page is stale, still promoting Euro 2024 — the GAA page is the current one.
irishamericanpubnyc.com · See our FiDi happy hour guide
The Craic On now
Brooklyn is genuinely thin for Gaelic games — MurphGuide’s citywide GAA list names exactly one bar in the whole borough, and this is it. Worth knowing up front that the pub itself advertises no GAA anywhere on its site, so ring before you build a Sunday morning around it. What is confirmed, from their own specials page: happy hour 4 to 8pm, all day on Mondays when they open at 5, and the food deals that make the trip worth it either way — Trad Tuesday puts bangers and mash or shepherd’s pie at $15, Thursday is wings and a pint of Harp for $20, Monday is a half-price LaFrieda burger at $11. Open til 4am, seven nights.
The Long Hall Pub and Grocery
The Irish Star called it the home of GAA in midtown Manhattan and the pub does not argue. Their own site files the Sunday roast at a URL that reads /gaa-specials, which tells you exactly what Sunday means here: $24 for roast sirloin or lamb with turnip, roast and mashed potato and Bisto gravy, or $9.50 for boiled bacon and cabbage. On All-Ireland final day they have opened at 9:30am, charged no cover, run the full Irish and put a DJ on after the final whistle. The honest caveat: sources disagree on their happy hour — some list it every day, others weekdays 4 to 7 — so we are not printing a price until we have confirmed it by phone. It is also a real grocery, stocking Irish and British goods.
Early doors: in your seat by throw-in
No discount worth naming, but the doors open in time for an Irish morning throw-in — which on a final day matters more. Two of these sit in the Financial District.
John Sullivan’s
No happy hour, and for this page it barely matters. Sullivan’s opens at 8am seven days a week, which covers every Irish throw-in on the calendar without anyone having to unlock the door as a favour. The full Irish runs all day at $20 — grilled Irish bacon and tomato, fried black and white pudding, sausage, home fries, egg any style, Irish baked beans, toast — and that is the single most useful line here if you are stepping off a bus at Port Authority at nine in the morning. MurphGuide has it on their GAA list; the pub advertises no games itself, so ring ahead. Use 212-993-7223 — the number MurphGuide prints is wrong.
johnsullivansnyc.com · See our best sports bars in NYC
Connolly’s Pub and Restaurant
The earliest door on this page by four hours. 7am Monday to Saturday, 8am Sunday, forty-five screens over three floors and a roof. Mayo supporters have run a Times Square takeover out of a Connolly’s, with Midwest Radio broadcasting live from the bar and the first 120 fans handed a voucher for a free pint. The honest caveat is a real one: every write-up says only Connolly’s in Midtown, and there are two — this one on 45th and another at 14 East 47th — while Connolly’s itself publishes nothing about Gaelic games on its site. Call before you commit a Sunday morning to either room. The third-floor space, Klub 45, runs live music most weeks.
connollyspubandrestaurant.com · Full profile on Happy Hour NYC
Jack Jones
IrishCentral’s Queens pick for the All-Ireland final, and the detail that earned it: they open the doors right at throw-in, 10:30am, food from 11:30, no cover. That is the entire proposition and it is a good one. Ditmars end of Astoria, so the N or W to Ditmars Boulevard puts you a short walk away. The honest caveat: their own happy hour page currently reads we are currently updating our Happy Hour menu, on a site whose page titles market the best happy hour in Astoria. Go for the match and the room, not the deal. They also publish two different sets of opening hours, so call if you are heading over on a weekday afternoon.
Irish Haven
Brooklyn’s pick for the All-Ireland final, and the bar from The Departed: 10am doors on Sunday, steps from the R at 59th Street, no cover, and drinks promotions running all day. It opens at 8am the rest of the week. Ignore the mythology you will read elsewhere — the 50-cent beers were one day in October 2024 for the bar’s 60th birthday, not a standing deal, and the $5 Guinness quote still circulating is from 2015. Nobody publishes current prices. What is actually here: a back room with darts, pool and foosball, trivia on the last Wednesday of the month, and a room nobody has redecorated for anybody’s benefit.
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The Dead Rabbit
Worth it, on the clear understanding that you are not here for a deal. There is no happy hour at the Dead Rabbit and there never has been. What there is: a taproom that screens the All-Ireland finals for a 10:30am throw-in, reservations from 10am with room held for walk-ins, and match-day food that runs to Kerrygold-butter popcorn, smash burgers, chips and scotch eggs rather than a fry. Go here instead if you want the fry and the noise — the Irish American Pub is a seven-minute walk up John Street. The honest caveat: gratuity is added for parties of five or more, and on any check over $200.
Queens: Astoria, Sunnyside, Woodside, Rockaway
Where the pubs are and the paperwork is not. Every listing here is thinner than we would like, and we say so on each card. More local picks in our Astoria happy hour guide.
Irish Rover
The honest caveat goes first here, because it is the story. MurphGuide lists the Rover as showing all GAA games live with a $20 cover — the only door charge attached to any listing on this page. It is a single undated source, and the same guide puts an identical $20 on a bar in New Jersey, which reads more like a per-match pay-per-view charge than a nightly door. Call before you walk up. What is solid: 8am opens Monday to Saturday, noon on Sunday, seven decent-sized TVs, free darts, a jukebox and Thursday trivia. No happy hour published. Ask about cards at the door — the only source saying cash-only is ancient.
irishrovernyc.com · See our Astoria happy hour guide
McGuinness’ Saloon
The clearest GAA line of any pub in Queens, and it comes from the Irish Star: fans will want to head here on match days, because everything happening back home in Ireland is shown here. Live music the rest of the week, a locals’ room on Queens Boulevard rather than a destination. The honest caveat: it is also the least documented bar on this page. No website, an unclaimed TripAdvisor listing with zero reviews, and the only published hours sit on a directory that has it closing at 4pm daily — plainly a typo for 4am. Call 718-729-9617 first. And it is Sunnyside, whatever the listings say: the zip is 11104.
See our Sunnyside happy hour guide
The Dugout
The most convenient room on this page if you are coming in on the 7 or the LIRR — it sits on 61st Street at Woodside, which is the interchange. MurphGuide files it on their GAA viewing list, but the only thing they say about it is Irish pub and sports bar, so treat the Gaelic games as likely rather than promised. Skip it if you need certainty: no website, no published happy hour and three different sets of opening hours across three directories. The local move — this end of Woodside has Irish pubs stacked within two blocks, so if the Dugout is not showing it, walk.
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Rogers Irish Tavern
The only GAA listing anywhere in the Rockaways, which is either the reason to go or the reason to stop reading, depending where you live. It is on Beach 116th, a block off the sand at the end of the line, with live music most weekends. The honest caveat is unusually stark: nobody publishes their hours. Not the venue, not Google, not the directories — one listing says outright that it does not have them. MurphGuide has it on the GAA list with an address, a phone number and nothing else. Ring 718-634-5308 before you commit an hour to the A train.
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The Bronx: Woodlawn, Riverdale and Gaelic Park
Closest to the actual football. Nothing up here posts a happy hour — a finding we confirmed across 22 bars for the Woodlawn happy hour guide.
Rambling House
The Bronx room that actually shows the games. The Irish Star named it for Mayo against New York — showing the match on Sunday, live music after — and it is a ten-minute drive from Gaelic Park, which is why the Katonah Avenue crowd washes through here either side of a fixture. Full Irish on the menu, big screens, live music three nights a week and a bookable back garden, the Secret Garden, which is the only real outdoor space on the strip. The honest caveat: there is no happy hour, and that is not an oversight. Across 22 verified bars in Woodlawn, exactly one publishes a happy hour, and it is not this one. The prices are simply low.
Behan’s Public House
On MurphGuide’s GAA list with no detail attached, which is about the level of documentation Woodlawn runs on generally. What is verifiable is the room: rebuilt after a fire with a serious rig — eight Martin Audio boxes and four subs — and it changes character after dark, from an afternoon bar to a DJ night. Worth knowing before you settle in for a hurling replay at nine. The honest caveat: no website, no hours published by the venue itself, and two different phone numbers in circulation. Nothing on Katonah Avenue posts a happy hour and this is no exception.
Connaughton’s Riverdale Steakhouse
The why here is better than anywhere else on this page: the New York GAA board met in this room weekly for years. Owner Terry Connaughton, from Athleague in Roscommon, held every position going on the New York board, was instrumental in affiliating New York GAA with Croke Park, and founded Ladies GAA in New York in 1991. That is not a marketing line, it is institutional history, and it is why the steakhouse turns up on every GAA list in the city. The honest caveat: no source confirms it currently screens matches, and there is no happy hour. It is a steakhouse first and a sports bar a distant second. Noon to 4am, daily.
An Beal Bocht Cafe
The local move rather than a viewing bar. An Beal Bocht does not show the matches and does not pretend to. What it has is the borough’s longest-running trad session, more than 25 years of it, and a door six minutes’ walk from the 238th Street gate at Gaelic Park. If you have actually been to a game rather than watched one, this is where you go afterwards. Open from 11am on weekdays, 10am at weekends, kitchen to 10pm. The honest caveat: a third-party listing claims a daily 4 to 7pm happy hour with $3 domestic beers and a dollar off wells and wine. It is not on their own site and carries no date, so treat it as a rumour worth testing at the bar.
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GAA bars in NYC: FAQ
Which NYC bars show GAA games?
The Westbury and Tara Mór in Midtown, The Long Hall in Murray Hill, The Irish American Pub and The Dead Rabbit in the Financial District, John Sullivan’s by Penn Station, Connolly’s on 45th, Jack Jones and the Irish Rover in Astoria, McGuinness’ Saloon in Sunnyside, The Dugout in Woodside, Rogers Irish Tavern in Rockaway Park, The Craic in Williamsburg, Irish Haven in Sunset Park, and Rambling House, Behan’s and Connaughton’s in the Bronx. Eighteen pubs across four boroughs.
What time do GAA games start in New York?
Irish throw-ins land in the New York morning — roughly 9:30am to 11:30am Eastern for championship fixtures, since New York runs five hours behind Ireland in summer. The 2026 All-Ireland hurling final threw in at 10:30am New York time. That is why an early door matters far more than a late licence when you are picking a pub.
Is there a GAA bar in NYC with a happy hour during the match?
One. The Westbury at 20 West 38th Street runs its happy hour Monday to Friday from 11am to 6pm — $7 drafts, $10 well drinks, $11 wine — and its own menu states it is open for all GAA matches. Every other happy hour on this list starts at 4pm, hours after a morning throw-in has finished.
Do New York pubs charge a cover for GAA matches?
Usually not. The Long Hall, Jack Jones and Irish Haven have all run All-Ireland finals with no cover charge. The one exception listed anywhere is the Irish Rover in Astoria, which MurphGuide lists at $20 — a single undated source, and more likely a per-match pay-per-view charge than a nightly door. Call and ask before you go.
Where can I watch GAA on Staten Island?
Nowhere we can verify. IrishCentral went looking for a Staten Island pub showing the All-Ireland final and could not confirm one either. If you are on the Island, the nearest confirmed room is Irish Haven in Sunset Park — 10am doors, no cover, and a straight run up 4th Avenue from the Verrazzano.
Last updated: August 2026. Deals and hours change – confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
