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This is a list of nicknames for the traditional counties of Ireland and their inhabitants. The nicknames are mainly used with reference to the county's representative team in gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). A few of the names are quite old and well-known; most are recent coinages mainly used by journalists.
The term "GAA" is not normally used in competition names, particularly in GAA-only sports. Other abbreviations include: ACL = All-County League, sometimes used in counties that also have regional leagues; AI = All-Ireland; CLG = Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Irish for "Gaelic Athletic Association" or "Gaelic Athletic Club", e.g. CLG Naomh Anna ...
Counties as used in Gaelic games outside Ireland cover large geographic non-traditional areas which are not considered as counties in any other context. For example, Scotland is a county for GAA purposes, as is London , while the remaining counties of Great Britain cover wider areas than their names suggest.
Both competitions feature teams representing the traditional Gaelic games counties. [2] [3] The 2017 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final was the best attended women's sports final of 2017. [4] [5] The 2019 final, after the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, was the second largest attendance at any women's sporting final ...
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael [ˈkʊmˠən̪ˠ ˈl̪ˠuːˌçlʲasˠ ˈɡeːlˠ]; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, [1] which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and GAA rounders.
title "List of nicknames for Irish counties and GAA counties" or some such; To my mind, #3 is a longwinded but #1 is downright confusing. jnestorius 12:45, 25 August 2017 (UTC) Sorry I forgot about this discussion die to other things. The article as is downright confusing. I think a RfC for more input might help.
The All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship (Irish: Craobh Shinsir Peile na mBan in Éirinn) is the premier inter-county competition in the game of ladies' Gaelic football in Ireland. [1] The series of games are organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association and are played during the summer months, with the All-Ireland Final ...
In 1974, together with Kerry, Roscommon, Laois, Offaly, Galway, Waterford and Tipperary, Cork was one of eight GAA counties who played in the inaugural All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship. Cork and the other three Munster counties also agreed to play an inaugural Munster Senior Ladies' Football Championship.