The Gaelic football

 Background: The Gaelic football is the favourite sport of the Irish, and most practiced, because we count not less than 2 800 clubs and approximately 250 000 players’ male and female in all Ireland! Mixture of rugby and football, the Gaelic football is a fast and physical sport, asking for a lot of skill.
It is a sport practiced in Ireland for a long time, because the first written mentions go back up in 1527 and the first official meeting dates 1712 to Slane.

 Place: Irish.

 Games rules: The game sets two teams consisted of 15 players: a goalkeeper, 6 defenders, 2 midfielders and 6 forwards.
Every team can make until 3 replacements in the match. The matches deceive in two half-time and owed 60 or 70 minutes, according to the competition. The goal looks like those of the rugby, with the exception of nets under the transversal, there where the guard is. The aim of the game is to send the ball (similar to a soccer ball) either between posts and under the transversal to nets (what corresponds to a goal, that is 3 points), or between posts over the transversal (1 point).

 The competitions:
The teams are constituted only by amateurs. The season includes two competitions:
The championship (Bank of Ireland Football Championship), who takes place from May till September.
The league (Allianz NFL) which takes place during the "cold season ".