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The first Gaelic football and hurling rules were published by the fledgling Gaelic Athletic Association in 1885. These specified goalposts similar to soccer goals: for football 15 ft (4.6 m) wide and a crossbar 8 ft (2.4 m) high, while for hurling they were 20 ft (6.1 m) wide and a crossbar 10 ft (3.0 m) high.
Gaelic sports at all levels are amateur, in the sense that the athletes, even those playing at an elite level, do not receive payment for their performance. The main competitions at all levels of Gaelic football are the League and the Championship. Of these, it is the Championship (a knock-out tournament) that tends to attain the most prestige.
The United States County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or USGAA, is one of the 3 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in North America, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the United States (except for the New York metropolitan area, which is administrated by the New York GAA). The county board is also ...
Eddie McKay (Gaelic footballer) Joe McNally (Gaelic footballer) Martin McNamara (Gaelic footballer) Frank McPhillips; Michael McQuillan (Gaelic footballer) Brendan McVeigh; Mark Miley; Gay Mitchell (Gaelic footballer) Billy Morgan (Gaelic footballer) Niall Morgan; Darren Mulhearne; Brendan Murphy (Meath footballer) Brian Murphy (1960s Gaelic ...
The following are the positions in the Gaelic sports of Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. Each team consists of one goalkeeper (who wears a different colour jersey), six backs, two midfielders, and six forwards: 15 players in all. Some under-age games are played 13-a-side (in which case the full-back and full-forward positions are removed ...
CLG: Cumann Lútchleas Gael (Gaelic Athletic Club, or Gaelic Athletic Association) CPG: Cumann Peile Gaelach (Gaelic Football Club) GAA: Gaelic Athletic Association (now often used for individual clubs) GAC: Gaelic Athletic Club (often denotes that more than one sport is played) GFC: Gaelic Football Club; HC: Hurling Club; HCC: Hurling and ...
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The Gaelic football pitch is rectangular, stretching 130–145 metres long and 80–90 metres wide. There are H-shaped goalposts at each end with a net on the bottom section. Lines are marked at distances of 13 m, 20 m and 45 m from each end-line. An Australian Football playing field, is oval shaped, and may be 135–185 m long and 110–155 m ...