Gaelic football
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Gaelic football, commonly known in Ireland as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. Th
Gaelic footballers in action during the 2009 National Football League Final
A league game between Dublin and Tyrone in 2013
The ball used for a match, made by Irish company O'Neills
A player from a Canada GAA club shoots for goal
Hurling
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Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin. When played by women, it is called camogie, which shares a common Gaelic root. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number
Gaelic football
…referred to as the "Gaelic games") controlled by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the largest sporting organisation in Ireland. Along with hurling and camogie, Gaelic football is one of the few remaining strictly amateur sports in the world, with players, coaches, and managers prohibited from…
David Collins of Galway holds off Tipperary's Eoin Kelly in the 2014 National Hurling League
A club hurling match in play
A standard hurling helmet
Player taking a penalty puck from the 20-metre line