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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.
This list includes all 72 current CGAs as well as a number of obsolete CGAs, arranged alphabetically. The three-letter country code is also listed for each CGA. Several nations have changed during the Games' history; name changes are explained by footnotes after the nation's name, and other notes are explained by footnotes linked within the table.
All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship (defunct) - Knockout competition for second teams of senior counties; Munster Senior Hurling League – Preseason competition for Munster counties. Walsh Cup – Preseason competition for tier 1 Leinster counties plus Galway and Antrim. Kehoe Cup – Preseason competition for tier 2 Leinster counties.
The 2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 137th edition of the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament since its establishment in 1887. Thirty-one of the thirty-two Irish counties took part – Kilkenny did not compete, while London and New York completed the lineup.
The following article provides a list of Gaelic games governing bodies, county boards and associations around the world. The principal governing body is the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The two dominant sports of the Gaelic games are traditionally played in separate regions of Ireland .
The 2024 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Allianz Football League, was the 93rd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for county teams. Thirty-one county teams from Ireland, plus London, compete; Kilkenny did not participate. [1] [2] [3]
The game will mark the NFL's first appearance in the country. In recent years, Ireland has hosted a number of college football matchups as part of the College Football Classic.
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island.They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.