GAA: Gaelic Athletic Association 2024 (IRL)

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is Ireland’s largest sporting organisation.

Source: https://www.gaa.ie/the-gaa/games/our-games and https://www.rte.ie/sport/results/gaa/

There are six different games in the family of Gaelic Games. These are Hurling, Gaelic football, Handball, Rounders, Camogie and Ladies Football.

Hurling/Camogie and Gaelic football/Ladies Football field invasion games played between teams of 15 players while Handball is played by 2 or 4 players striking a small ball against a wall. Rounders is a field game similar to baseball.

Hurling, Gaelic Football, Handball and Rounders are governed by the GAA while the Camogie Association and the Ladies Gaelic Football Association govern Camogie and Ladies Football respectively.

Find out more about each game by clicking on the following links:

Hurling

Gaelic Football

Camogie

Rounders

Handball

Ladies Football

Visit the website of each of the Organisations here:
Camogie Ladies Football Handball Rounders

or go to learning.gaa.ie

The Sunday Game on Facebook

GAA Fixtures & Results on RTE

GAA – the officiel site

Gaelic Games on Wikipedia

Author: Liam Menuisier