Abbreviations

• Leinster MHC: Leinster Minor Hurling Championship
  Leinster Minor Hurling Championship
  The ESB Leinster Minor Hurling Championship is the Minor "knockout" competition in the game of Hurling played in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Leinster Council...
  
  
• Dublin FL Div 2: Dublin Football League, Division 2
  Dublin AFL Division 2
  The Dublin AFL Division 2 or Dublin Adult Football League Division 2 is the second division of the top tier of Gaelic football in County Dublin. The 2008 AFL Division 2 champions are Fingal Ravens who qualify to play in Division 1. St Marys will join them in Division one thanks to a play-off...
  
  
• Laois JBHC: Laois Junior "B" Hurling Championship

• CLG: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Irish
  Irish language
  Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
  
   for "Gaelic Athletic Association
  Gaelic Athletic Association
  The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
  
  "
• GAA: Gaelic Athletic Association
  Gaelic Athletic Association
  The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
  
  .
• GAC: Gaelic Athletic Club, e.g. Menlough GAC
  Menlough GAC
  Menlough is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Menlough, County Galway, Ireland. The club is a member of the Galway GAA. Menlough compete in the Galway Senior Club Football Championship....
  
  
• GF: Gaelic football
  Gaelic football
  Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
  
  .
• GFC: Gaelic Football Club, e.g. St Grellan's GFC
  St Grellan's GFC
  St Grellan's Gaelic Football Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. The club is a member of the Galway GAA...
  
  .
• GH: Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball is a sport similar to Basque pelota, racquetball, squash and American handball . It is one of the four Gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...
  
  .
• HC: Hurling
  Hurling
  Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
  
   Club
• IAHA: Irish Amateur Handball Association.
• ICHA: Irish Collegiate Handball Association
  Irish Collegiate Handball Association
  The Irish Collegiate Handball Association is the national governing body for third-level handball in Ireland. It is composed of students and former students. Twenty-one handball clubs are affiliated at present. The ICHA organises 3 intervarsity handball championships each year in 60x30, 40x20 Team...
  
  
• LGFC: Ladies' Gaelic Football
  Ladies' Gaelic football
  Ladies' Gaelic football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association...
  
   Club.
• Pk: Park.

A

• A Chara: Irish
  Irish language
  Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
  
   meaning literally "Dear friend". Often used to start official communications, even in English.
• Alley: the court in Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball is a sport similar to Basque pelota, racquetball, squash and American handball . It is one of the four Gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...
  
  , often measuring 12.2 m by 6.1 m (40 feet by 20 feet)
• All-Ireland: Adjective describing a competition, such as the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...
  
  , run by the GAA and whose winners become national champions at the grade of that competition. The All-Ireland can refer to an already mentioned All-Ireland championship; more generally it can refer to the All-Ireland Senior Football
  All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...
  
   or Hurling Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1887 for the top hurling teams in Ireland....
  
  .
• All Star
  GAA All Stars Awards
  The All Stars Awards, currently sponsored by Vodafone, are given annually since 1971 by the Gaelic Athletic Association to the best player in each of the fifteen positions in Gaelic football and Hurling in Ireland. Additionally, one player in each code is selected as the player of the year...
  
  : An annual award, one of which is given to the best player in each of the fifteen positions in Gaelic football
  Gaelic football
  Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
  
  , hurling
  Hurling
  Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
  
  , ladies' football
  Ladies' Gaelic football
  Ladies' Gaelic football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association...
  
  , and camogie
  Camogie
  Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....
  
  .
• Áras: Irish, meaning a sports centre, or club (i.e. building)

B

• Bainisteoir: Irish
  Irish language
  Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
  
   word meaning manager.
• Backdoor: Adjective describing a "knockout" championship in which defeated teams are not immediately eliminated from the competition, and remain eligible to win (e.g. Offaly in the 1998 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1998
  The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1998 was the 112th staging of Ireland's premier hurling competition...
  
  ). Such teams are said to re-enter the championship through the back door.
• Barracks games: (derogatory) nickname for "foreign sports" (see below) from their supposed connection with the British military. Also "the barracks" as in "go to the barracks" (i.e. watch one of the foreign sports)
• Bas: The flattened, curved end head of a hurley, or camán.
• Big Alley: the 60x30 foot court, the indigenous handball alley.http://www.handball.ie/four_codes
• Black card: see tick.
• Block: where one player attempts to smother an opposing player's strike by trapping the ball between his hurley and the opponent's swinging hurley;
• Book: See tick. Also called black card or black book is a name for a ticking due the referee showing the player their note book as they would a red or yellow card

C

• Caid: Another name for Gaelic football, usually referring to precodified varieties in the south west of Ireland.
• Camán: Hurley
  Hurley (stick)
  A hurley is a wooden stick used to hit a sliotar in the Irish sport of hurling. It measures between 70 and 100 cm long with a flattened, curved end which provides the striking surface...
  
   or hurling stick.
• Camóg: Hurley or stick as used in camogie
  Camogie
  Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....
  
  . Shorter than male hurley.
• Camogie
  Camogie
  Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....
  
   (camógaíocht): Women's hurling. A GAA coinage, from the Irish.
• Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC): Committee which organises fixtures for competitions above provincial level.
• Cic Fada
  All-Ireland Cic Fada Championship
  The All-Ireland Kick Fada Championship is an annual tournament testing the skills of Ireland's best Gaelic footballers. Fada is Irish for "long". The Kick Fada is sponsored by MBNA....
  
  : A competition for Gaelic footballers.
• Cluiche corr: rounders
  Rounders
  Rounders is a game played between two teams of either gender. The game originated in England where it was played in Tudor times. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by...
  
  , the one Gaelic game widely adopted outside Ireland.
• An Coiste Náisiunta: The National Executive.
• Comhairle Cluiche Corr na hEireann: Rounders Council of Ireland
• An Comhdháil Náisiunta: The National Council
• Compromise rules/Composite rules
  Composite rules shinty-hurling
  Composite rules shinty-hurling , sometimes known simply as shinty-hurling) is a hybrid sport which was developed to facilitate international matches between shinty players and hurling players....
  
  : Games held between hurlers, and shinty
  Shinty
  Shinty is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the...
  
   players under modified rules. Not to be confused with "international rules".
• Corner back: Players who stand on either side of the full back, and who are defenders.
• County
  GAA county
  A Gaelic Athletic Association county is a geographic region within the Gaelic Athletic Association , controlled by a county board and originally based on the counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the counties of Ireland have changed since the foundation of that date, the GAA counties have...
  
  /County board: a geographic region of control within the GAA. In Ireland, these correspond to actual counties. Outside Ireland, they quite often refer to places which are not actual counties, e.g. countries such as Scotland
  Scotland GAA
  The Scotland Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Scotland GAA is one of the county boards of the GAA outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in Scotland. The county board is also responsible for the Scottish inter-county teams...
  
   or American states such as New York
  New York GAA
  The New York County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or New York GAA, is one of the county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the New York metropolitan area...
  
  .
• County colours: the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the inter-county competitions of the GAA.
• County championship: A championship in football or hurling in a specific grade contested by clubs within a county.
• Croke Park
  Croke Park
  Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...
  
   (colloquially Croker): The principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association
  Gaelic Athletic Association
  The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
  
  .
• Cúige: Irish for a province, plural cúigí.
• Cumann: Irish for society or association, can be found in various compounds.
• Cumann Camógaíochta na nGael: Irish for Camogie Association of Ireland
• Cumann Lúthchleas Gael: The Irish language
  Irish language
  Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
  
   name of the GAA.
• Cumann na mBunscol: the voluntary organisation of primary school teachers who coach GAA.
• Cumann Peil Gael na mBan: Ladies' Gaelic Football Association
  Ladies' Gaelic Football Association
  The Ladies Gaelic Football Association is the organisation which promotes and regulates ladies' Gaelic football in Ireland.The association has also selected the Ireland women's international rules football team, which will play the Australia women's international rules football team in...
  
  

D

• The Double
  The Double (Gaelic games)
  The Double is a term in Gaelic games that refers to a county winning the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in the same year. Other major trophies won in combination in the same year at minor or under-21 levels are also often referred to as...
  
  : when a county wins the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...
  
   and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1887 for the top hurling teams in Ireland....
  
   in the same year. It is very uncommon.
• Dual County
  Dual County
  Dual county is a term used in Gaelic games to describe a GAA county that competes at a similar level in both hurling and gaelic football. For example, Cork and Dublin play in Division 1 in both the NHL and NFL.Generally recognised dual counties include:...
  
  : a GAA County
  GAA county
  A Gaelic Athletic Association county is a geographic region within the Gaelic Athletic Association , controlled by a county board and originally based on the counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the counties of Ireland have changed since the foundation of that date, the GAA counties have...
  
   which plays both football and hurling at a similar level. Most counties specialise in one sport or the other.
• Dual player
  Dual player
  Dual player or dual star is a term used in Gaelic games to describe a player who plays both Men's Gaelic football and Hurling or Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie. The player doesn't necessarily have to play at the same standard in both sports...
  
  : Someone who plays both football and hurling at a high level.

E

• End line: The two shorter sides - the ends - of a football or hurling pitch, at the centre of which the goalposts are situated.

F

• Féile na nGael
  Féile na nGael
  Féile na nGael , Irish for "Festival of the Gaels") is an annual tournament comprising the sports of hurling, camogie and handball organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...
  
  : literally "Festival of the Gaels", an annual tournament comprising the sports of hurling, camogie and handball.
• Féile Peile na nÓg: literally Festival of Youth Football, national festival of football for boys and girls under 14 years of age and is based on the GAA club unit.
• Fetch: To catch the ball above ones head.
• Football: Always Gaelic football. Association football is referred to as "soccer" - see foreign sports.
• Foreign sports: Non-Gaelic games such as rugby union
  Rugby union
  Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
  
  , rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
  , soccer and cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
  , particularly in the sense that they rivalled Gaelic games in Ireland for popularity during the formative years of the GAA.
• Forty-five: Kick awarded in football to the attacking side 45 metres from the defending side's goal when a player for the defending side last touches the ball before it goes over that side's end line. Formerly known as a fifty (45 metres is roughly equivalent to 50 yards).
• 40x20: The international code of handball, introduced from the USA.http://www.handball.ie/four_codes
• Four Codes: the four types of handball administered by the GAA, aka 40x20, 60x30, One Wall and Hardball.http://www.handball.ie/four_codes
• Free or Free-in: normal means of restarting play by the non-offending team after a foul.
• Full Back: no 3. a very important defender.

G

• Gaelic games
  Gaelic games
  Gaelic games are sports played in Ireland under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The two main games are Gaelic football and hurling...
  
  : The sports of Gaelic handball, Gaelic football, hurling/camogie and rounders.
• Gah/gaa: Slang term for Gaelic football, or for Gaelic sports in general. Pronounced with the aa lengthened.
• Goal: A score in football and hurling worth three points, awarded when the ball legally crosses the goal line under the bar and between the posts.
• Goalkeeper: No. 1, player in football and hurling whose job it is to prevent goals being scored.
• Grade: A level at which a game or competition is played, based on age (e.g., Senior, Minor), ability (e.g. Senior, Junior), gender, etc. See Senior, Under-21 and Minor. A grade can also be split further, e.g. Senior A, Senior B.

H

• Hand-pass: In hurling, football and camogie, when a ball is slapped with the palm of the hand, rather than throwing (which is illegal). Hand-passing may not be used to score goals, but may be used to score points.
• Hardball: the most ancient form of handball.http://www.handball.ie/four_codes It is also the fastest of the Four Codes.
• Headquarters/HQ: Colloquial term for Croke Park
  Croke Park
  Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...
  
   also known as "Croker".
• Home final: In competitions in which an overseas team gets a bye to the final, a final played between two teams from the island of Ireland. The winning team then plays the overseas team in the final proper. For example, the 1908 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1908
  -Leinster:-Munster:-Ulster:-All-Ireland Championship:------------...
  
   saw Dublin beat Kerry in the home final, before becoming All-Ireland champions by beating London in the actual final, which was London's only game in that year's championship.
• Hook: where a player approaches another player from a rear angle and attempts to catch the opponent's hurley with his own at the top of the swing.
• Hurley
  Hurley (stick)
  A hurley is a wooden stick used to hit a sliotar in the Irish sport of hurling. It measures between 70 and 100 cm long with a flattened, curved end which provides the striking surface...
  
  : The stick or bat used in hurling
  Hurling
  Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
  
  .

I

• Intermediate: A grade, higher than junior, of competition for players not quite good enough to play at senior level. Some championships have senior and junior, but no intermediate, equivalents, for example the All-Ireland Football Championships.
• Inter county
  Inter county
  Inter county, sometimes inter-county, is Gaelic Athletic Association terminology which refers to competitions or matches between two GAA counties...
  
  : Inter county sometimes inter-county is Gaelic Athletic Association
  Gaelic Athletic Association
  The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
  
   terminology which refers to competitions or matches between two GAA counties. The term can also be used to describe the players on the teams.
• International rules
  International rules football
  International rules football is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players....
  
  : Games played between Gaelic footballers, and Australian rules football
  Australian rules football
  Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
  
  ers under modified rules. Not to be confused with "compromise rules".
• Intervarsity: portmanteau of "Inter-university"http://www.ichahandball.com/aboutus.html
• Irish experiment
  Irish experiment
  The Irish Experiment is the popular name for the interest, primarily from VFL/AFL clubs, in bringing Irish sportspeople to Australia to play Australian Rules Football professionally ....
  
  : an attempt by the Australian Football League
  Australian Football League
  The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
  
   to get Gaelic footballers to play Australian Rules Football
  Australian rules football
  Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
  
   professionally in Australia.
• Irish handball: another name for Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball is a sport similar to Basque pelota, racquetball, squash and American handball . It is one of the four Gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...
  
  
• Irish Handball Union or IHU: the non GAA handball body.

J

• Junior: A grade of competition for players not quite good enough to play at senior level.

K

• Kick Fada
  All-Ireland Cic Fada Championship
  The All-Ireland Kick Fada Championship is an annual tournament testing the skills of Ireland's best Gaelic footballers. Fada is Irish for "long". The Kick Fada is sponsored by MBNA....
  
  /Cic Fada: A competition for Gaelic footballers.
• Kickout:

L

• Liathróid: Irish
  Irish language
  Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
  
   word for football, or handball, i.e. the ball itself. See also peil (below). A hurling ball is a sliotar.
• Liathróid láimhe: Irish for Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball is a sport similar to Basque pelota, racquetball, squash and American handball . It is one of the four Gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...
  
  

O

• Official Guide (Treoraí Oifigiúil): The playing and organisational rules of the GAA. Part 1 contains the Association's constitution and rules, while Part 2 contains the playing rules of hurling and football.
• One Wall: the most basic form of handball.http://www.handball.ie/four_codes
• Overhand stroke: A stroke in handball, similar to pitching in baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
  http://www.handball.ie/how_to_play
• Overseas unit: GAA bodies outside Ireland

P

• Panel: The Gaelic games equivalent of a squad
  Squad
  In military terminology, a squad is a small military unit led by a non-commissioned officer that is subordinate to an infantry platoon. In countries following the British Army tradition this organization is referred to as a section...
  
  .
• Páirc: related to the English word "park
  Park
  A park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state, or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas. Many parks are legally protected by...
  
  ", this Irish language appears in the names of some sports grounds, e.g. Páirc Esler
  Páirc Esler
  Páirc Esler formerly Páirc an Iúir is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is the home of the Down Gaelic football and hurling teams and the Newry Shamrocks GAA club. The ground has a capacity of about 20,000...
  
   and Páirc Tailteann
  Páirc Tailteann
  Páirc Tailteann is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Navan, County Meath, Ireland. It is the home of the Meath Gaelic football and Hurling teams. The ground has a capacity of between 30,000 and 33,000. It is the venue of the annual Meath GAA club championship finals of which the winners...
  
  
• Páirc an Chrócaigh: Irish for Croke Park
  Croke Park
  Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...
  
  .
• Park: (see also) Páirc, a common element in the names of GAA grounds.
• Peil: Irish
  Irish language
  Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
  
   word for football, i.e. the game of Gaelic football. See also liathróid (above).
• Peil Ghaelach na mBan: Ladies' Gaelic football
  Ladies' Gaelic football
  Ladies' Gaelic football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association...
  
  
• Poc Fada: A competition for hurlers.
• Point: A score in football and hurling, awarded when the ball legally passes over the bar, between the posts. See also goal (above).
• Pre-shoot position: In handball, this is a position six foot deeper into the court than where the ball was contacted.http://www.handball.ie/how_to_play
• Province: run by a Provincial council
  Provincial council
  Provincial councils are organisational bodies within the Gaelic Athletic Association, each made up of several GAA counties. The provincial council is responsible for the organisation of club and inter-county competitions such as the provincial championships, and the promotion of Gaelic games within...
  
  , these are collections of counties. They correspond to the provinces of Ireland
  Provinces of Ireland
  Ireland has historically been divided into four provinces: Leinster, Ulster, Munster and Connacht. The Irish word for this territorial division, cúige, literally meaning "fifth part", indicates that there were once five; the fifth province, Meath, was incorporated into Leinster, with parts going to...
  
   with the addition of Britain. Provincial championships
  Provincial championships
  A Provincial Championship occurs in the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland. There are four Provincial councils in Ireland; Ulster, Connacht, Leinster and Munster as well as councils outside Ireland such as that which covers Britain...
  
   are the next level below All-Ireland.
• Puck, puckout:

R

• Red card: Card shown to a player who has been sent off for committing a serious foul, or who has been shown a second yellow card.
• Right Corner Back: no. 2, a defender.
• Rule 21
  Rule 21
  Rule 21 of the Gaelic Athletic Association banned members of the British occupational forces and the former Royal Ulster Constabulary from participating in Gaelic games....
  
  : A rule in the GAA's Official Guide which forbids players from being in the British military or RUC
  Royal Ulster Constabulary
  The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2000. Following the awarding of the George Cross in 2000, it was subsequently known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC. It was founded on 1 June 1922 out of the Royal Irish Constabulary...
  
  ; changed in 2001.
• Rule 27: A rule in the GAA's Official Guide which forbade members from playing or attending foreign sports; changed in 1971.
• Rule 42
  Rule 42
  Rule 42 is a rule of the Gaelic Athletic Association which in practice prohibits the playing of non-Gaelic games in GAA stadiums. The rule is often mistakenly believed to prohibit foreign sports at GAA owned stadiums...
  
  : A rule in the GAA's Official Guide which prevents foreign sports being played on GAA-controlled property. See List of non-Gaelic games played in Croke Park for exceptions to this rule (as from 2005).

S

• Sam: The Sam Maguire Cup
  Sam Maguire Cup
  The Sam Maguire Cup, often called The Sam , is the name of the cup that is awarded to winners of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland...
  
  , awarded to the winning team in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...
  
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• Scór
  Scór
  Scór is a division of the Gaelic Athletic Association charged with promotion of cultural activities, and the name of a series of annual competitions in such activities.Rule 4 of the GAA's official guide reads:...
  
  : a division of the GAA charged with promotion of cultural activities, and the name of a series of annual competitions in such activities.
• Selector: A person who helps pick a team. Usually a team has two of these, as well as a manager.
• Senior: The highest grade which a player can play at, not limited by age or ability.
• Shinty-hurling: composite rules
  Composite rules shinty-hurling
  Composite rules shinty-hurling , sometimes known simply as shinty-hurling) is a hybrid sport which was developed to facilitate international matches between shinty players and hurling players....
  
  
• Shot anticipation: in handball, this is where you work out where the ball will bounce back to.http://www.handball.ie/how_to_play
• Sliotar
  Sliotar
  A sliotar or sliothar is a hard solid sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together. Sometimes called a "puck" or "hurling ball", it resembles an American baseball with more pronounced stitching...
  
  : the ball used in hurling. A football or handball is known as liathróid.
• Sidearm stroke: A stroke in handball, where the ball is hit from around waist level.http://www.handball.ie/how_to_play
• Sideline: The two longer sides of a football or hurling pitch.
• Sideline ball: A kick (football) or puck (hurling) awarded when the ball passes over the sideline. It is awarded to the opposite team to that of the player who last touched the ball.
• Sidepull/Side-pull: where two players running together for the sliotar will collide at the shoulders and swing together to win the tackle and "pull" (name given to swing the hurley) with extreme force.
• Sixty-five: Puck awarded in hurling to the attacking side 65 metres from the defending side's goal when a player for the defending side last touches the ball before it goes over that side's end line. Formerly known as a seventy (65 metres is roughly equivalent to 70 yards).
• 60x30: the "Big Alley" court form of handball indigenous to Ireland. http://www.handball.ie/four_codes
• Square: usually "the square", the small rectangle surrounding the goal in hurling, camogie and football.
• Square ball: A type of foul in hurling and football which occurs when a player on the attacking team enters the opposing team's small square inside the penalty area before the ball does.
• Stroke: a method of hitting the ball with the hand in handball.
• The Sunday Game
  The Sunday Game
  The Sunday Game is Raidió Teilifís Éireann's main Gaelic games television programme. It is shown on RTÉ Two every Sunday during the Football Championship and Hurling Championship seasons. It is one of RTÉ Two’s longest-running shows, having been on air since 1979, one year after the channel first...
  
  : RTÉ's main Gaelic games programme.

T

• Tailteann Games
  Tailteann Games
  The Tailteann Games were an ancient sporting event held in Ireland in honour of the goddess Tailtiu. They ran from 632 BC to 1169-1171 AD when they died out after the Norman invasion....
  
  : Ancient multisport competition killed off by Norman invasion. The GAA attempted a revival in the 1920s.
• Tick: a mark made by the referee in his notebook against a player who has committed a certain type of foul, but not so serious as to warrant a yellow card (see below). The referee indicates when a player is ticked by holding his notebook above his head. A player who is ticked twice in a match is cautioned and shown the yellow card.
• Treoraí Oifigiúil: Official Guide.

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• Umpire: One of four officials in a game of football or hurling, identifiable by his/her white coat, and whose responsibilities include to signal a point by waving a white flag, to signal a goal by waving a green flag, to indicate which side last touched the ball before it crossed the end-line, and to alert the referee to certain foul play.
• Underhand stroke: A stroke in handball, where the hand hits the ball from below the waist.http://www.handball.ie/how_to_play
• Under-21: A grade of competition for players under 21 years of age.
• Up for the Match
  Up for the Match
  Up for the Match is an Irish Gaelic games-themed variety show currently hosted by Des Cahill and Gráinne Seoige. The show is broadcast live in two editions each year on RTÉ One on the eve of the respective All-Ireland hurling and football finals...
  
  : RTÉ One
  RTÉ One
  RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
  
  programme shown broadcast twice a year on the eve of the All-Ireland hurling and All-Ireland football finals respectively.

W

• Weak hand: In handball, this would be the left hand for right-handed people (and right for left-handers). It is often exploited by opponents.http://www.handball.ie/how_to_play
• Wide: When the ball passes over the end line having last been touched by a player on the attacking side. The defending side is awarded a kickout (football) or puckout (hurling).

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• Yellow card: Card shown to a player who has been cautioned ("booked") for committing certain types of fouls, or who has been ticked twice (see Tick above). A played who is cautioned twice in a match is shown the red card and sent off.