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Diagram of a Gaelic football and hurling pitch: Date: 23 March 2007: Source: en:Image:Gaelic football pitch diagram.jpg: Author: Traced by User:Stannered: Permission (Reusing this file) PD original: Other versions: en:Image:Gaelic football pitch diagram.jpg
Both codes use rectangular grassed fields however the Gaelic football pitch has a larger area. A Gaelic football pitch is 130–145 metres long and 80–90 metres wide [1] and are marked at distances of 13 m, 20 m and 45 m from each end-line whereas the Rugby field is as near as possible to a maximum of 144m long by 70m wide.
Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), [1] commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, [2] 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.
The stadiums are ordered by capacity; that is, the maximum number of spectators each stadium is authorised by the GAA to accommodate. Three of the stadiums above 35,000 capacity are used for Gaelic football and hurling provincial finals , while the largest stadium, Croke Park , is used for the All-Ireland Senior Championship Finals each year ...
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9 October 1926 saw first steps taken towards creating the Limerick Gaelic Grounds as a GAA stadium of note. A farm containing 12 acres (4.9 ha) was purchased at Coolraine on the Ennis Road for development as a sporting grounds. Two years later the new grounds officially opened with two junior hurling games. The first big effort to raise funds ...
Its 10 sections are each split horizontally with green, white and gold colour seats (the colours of Offaly GAA), with the words ' Uíbh Fhailí ' (the Irish for Offaly) spelt out across the stand's white section. At the same time as the stand was being constructed, improvements were also made in the terracing on the opposite side of the pitch ...