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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.
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. The Hertfordshire County Board , for example, oversees clubs in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire; Gloucestershire GAA reaches into South Wales, Warwickshire GAA ...
Fans of Tyrone (red and white) and Meath (green and yellow) on Hill 16 in Croke Park watching the teams' 2007 All-Ireland football quarterfinal.. The county colours (Irish: dathanna na gcontaetha) [1] [2] of an Irish county are the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the inter-county competitions of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the most important of which ...
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 ...
Obviously some may have moved from GAA to colloquial use but this list is still primarily almost entirely about GAA county nicknames. Mabuska (talk) 11:10, 23 August 2017 (UTC) [ reply ] You say "some may have moved from GAA to colloquial", but it is also true that some began outside the GAA and moved to it.
There are no official county flags. Flags with the GAA county colours serve as de facto county flags. County flags flown at Dublin Castle incorporate the county council arms, while those sold by the GAA county board include the county GAA crest. Coats of arms granted in recent decades often incorporate the GAA colours in the field.
Here's a brief guide to some of the top Fort Lauderdale slang terms, nicknames and endearing. Getty Images Located in Broward County on South Florida's east coast, Ft. Lauderdale, like many cities ...
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, [2] which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and GAA rounders.