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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.
Most Gaelic games county names in Ireland are shared with current or former administrative counties, the sole exception at present being County Derry (the largely coterminous administrative county, abolished in 1973, was County Londonderry). Outside Ireland, for GAA purposes "county" often refers to places which are not otherwise termed ...
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 ...
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.
This is a list of clubs in Ireland that play Gaelic games categorised by their governing bodies (GAA provincial council and GAA county). Common abbreviations used in club names are: CC: Camogie Club or Cumann Camogaíochta; CLG: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael (Gaelic Athletic Association) CPG: Cumann Peile Gaelach (Gaelic Football Club)
The legendary goalkeeper Ollie Walsh took over as manager at the turn of the decade.in 1987 Galway provided the opposition in the all Ireland final, who eventually emerged victorious, 1991 saw kilkenny win the leinster title and once again met their old rivals Tipperary in the all Ireland decider 20 years on from their last meeting in 1971 ...
This is category for Gaelic games by county, i.e. the unit used within the sports. While the area under the administration of some of these county boards are similar to the areas of the counties of Ireland, others are dissimilar. Others still, e.g. London, may not be widely recognised as counties at all, being extraterritorial.