The 24-year-old former Gaelic footballer, also a qualified Irish-speaking schoolteacher, showed "ice cold in his veins" to land a "phenomenal" 56-yard field goal at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Sunday in the Saints' 21-17 loss to the Dolphins.

It was Smyth's opening act in his first regular-season game for the Saints, which he followed with one of the most accurate onside kicks of the NFL season - less than one year after joining American football's International Player Pathway Program.

Irishmen featuring in a regular NFL game are as rare as a full barrel of Guinness at the end of St Patrick's Day and his efforts were met with joyous celebration in his home village's two bars, where free rounds were gleefully accepted.

But Mayobridge GAA club secretary Thomas O'Hare admitted there

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