Other Gaelic Activities

Ladies FootballLadies Football

A number of counties lay claim to being the cradle of Ladies Gaelic Football. There is a suggestion that a parish league was organised in Corraclare County Clare in 1926 by Tom Garry of Clonreddin. It lasted for a couple of years but then gradually faded away.

The 60's seems to provide the first real evidence of this "new craze" as it was called at the time. For years the women of Ireland, like most countries, had stood half a step behind the menfolk. The Gaelic Athletic Association had grown and prospered over eighty years.

From a couple of thousand spectators at the turn of the last century to regular attendances of 70,000 plus.

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Ladies Gaelic Football Official Website

camogieCamogie

The Official Launch of Camogie took place with the first public match between Craobh a’Cheithnigh and Cúchulainn on July 17th 1904 at a Gaelic League Fair in Meath. In 2004 The Association celebrates 100 years with a Gala Banquet, the announcement of the Team of the Century and numerous other events.

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www.camogie.ie

Rounders

Rounders is one of the four official GAA sports. Along with Gaelic Football, Hurling and Handball, Rounders was included in the original GAA charter back in 1884. Rounders is a bat and ball game and is not that dis-similar to baseball.

Féile na nGael

IN 1971 it was felt in Tipperary that something should be done which would have some effect nationally for hurling. Festivals were being run all over the country but had no Irish input.

Seamus O Riain, Eamonn De Stafford and myself put our thoughts together and came up with the idea of a Hurling Festival. Eamonn was a man with many qualities. We worked for many years together in the sugar factory in Thurles before he was appointed as Tourism Officer for North Tipperary. He was a great lover of all things Irish.

Seamus O Riain had a high profile as a former Uachtarain of Cumann Luthchleas Gael and commanded great respect all over the country. We met and the idea was discussed and immediately decided to have a go. The central idea was to invite a juvenile team from the other 31 counties to Tipperary for a weekend to compete against 32 teams from the parishes of  the county.