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Hurling and Gaelic Football are two different sports. It can be hard to compare them. Hurling is the fastest field game in the world, the course of a game can change quickly as a team trailing can come back into contention very quickly and a very good match is something special to witness. Gaelic Football is also special though and you can get very good matches in that too. Hurling is more unique, making it that bit extra special. Some people prefer Hurling and others prefer Gaelic Football. So it is really down to the individual to decide. Most fans watch both sports, even if they have a preference for one.
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JordanThe most obvious difference is the fact that Gaelic football is played with a round ball, similar to soccer's ball, and Hurling uses a stick and smaller ball. Quite a lot of the rules are the same, like scoring, amounts of players, time for matches, how far a ball can be carried, positions on the field. Hurling is much faster and more skill is needed. Each has its own specific rules too, but they are related games.
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Which sports have more than eleven players on each team?
Both Rugby League and Rugby Union, gaelic football, croquet, hurling, ladies football, camogie
What are the traditional sports in Ireland?
Gaelic Football and Hurling are Ireland's two national sports. Gaelic Football would be more widely played at the highest level, because Hurling is more skilful and difficult to play. It is still extremely popular and played across the entire country. Both Gaelic Football and Hurling are run by the same organisation and so they are very strongly linked in many ways, which is why we would say that they are our two national sports, rather than identifying one.
Who's better than Kerry or Mayo?
Kerry have had more success in Gaelic Football than Mayo and have won most of their encounters, so Kerry would be regarded as being better than Mayo in Gaelic Football.
What sport facility does Ireland have more than any other country?
Gaelic Football and Hurling pitches. Gaelic Football and Hurling are the two national sports of Ireland. There are many stadiums and smaller grounds around Ireland. There are over 2,500 clubs in Ireland. Croke Park is the largest of these, having a capacity of 82,300 people, making it one of the largest sports stadiums in Europe.
Why is Gaelic better than football?
Such a statement is open to debate. Different people will have different reasons as to why they prefer Gaelic Football or Soccer, so the question cannot really be answered definitively.
What is a major sport in Dublin Ireland?
Ireland's two main national sports are Gaelic Football and Hurling. Some parts of Ireland are stronger in one than in the other. Dublin is more known for its Gaelic Football. Other popular sports in Dublin would be soccer, rugby, golf and horseracing, amongst others.
Is any body playing in GAA today?
The GAA is the largest amateur sporting organisation in the world. Many people are playing GAA matches, both Hurling and Gaelic Football and other GAA sports. Gaelic Football is the most popular sport in Ireland. Last weekend one match in Dublin had a bigger attendance than the Superbowl did, by about 9,000 people.
Why was Hurling invented?
Hurling is one of the most ancient sports there is. It seems to have been first played by the ancient Irish thousands of years ago, and has remained the national game (along with Gaelic football) ever since.
When was Gaelic football in Ireland created?
Gaelic Football is an ancient sport, going back hundreds of years. Like all ball sports, it has emerged and evolved. Games like soccer, rugby, American Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football basically all evolved out of people kicking balls around and then slowly coming up with rules and starting new games. Even now, the rules of all of these sports continue to change. There are records of a form of Gaelic Football going back to 1670, but many catch and kick ball games go much further back than that, so it is not possible to put a specific date on it. On the 1st of November 1884 the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) was set up. It is the governing body of Gaelic Football, Hurling and several other sports. It helped to put more structure on the playing of the game including rules, competitions, teams, clubs etc.
Where was this soccer invented?
AnswerSoccer was not invented it evolved from ball games played in Europe. Medieval foot ball games known to have provided the concepts for Association Football (soccer), Rugby Union Football, American Football, Australian Rules Football, Rugby League Football and Gaelic Athletic Association football include Mob football, Shrove football, La Soule, Gaelic football, Cornish & Welsh Hurling, Irish Hurling and possibly Knattleikr. The people groups who played these games share a common history and culture which included playing foot ball games.For practical purposes Mob football, Shrove football and La Soule are the same game played under alternative names. Irish Hurling in played with a bat but other than this a defined area of play, two goals, two teams is similar to Cornish & Welsh Hurling. Gaelic football has shared concepts with hurling and we know Hurling combined with mob football/Shrove football/La Soule after hundreds of years of sports evolution in public schools and Universitys was used as a basis for the early form of Rugby Football played at Rugby Public School.By the 1750's other forms of football developed from these early games and were being played in almost every public schools England and some in other parts of Britain and Ireland. One major problem which presented itself was that when these schools played against each other they would do so by different rules. To eliminate the confusion in 1848 some of these schools held a meeting to agree a common set of rules. The meeting took place at Cambridge University. Teachers who contributed to these common rules came from Cambridge University, Eton, Harrow, Shrewsbury, Marlborough Westminster and Rugby. The rule they produced became known as the 'Cambridge Rules'. In 1863 a revised version of the 'Cambridge Rules' was published in a London news paper. The rules were read by a man called Ebenezer Cobb Morley who was to become the first secretary of the Football Association. He was to use these rules as a 'blueprint' to draft the his 'Laws of the game' which, with a few modifications, were agreed by the founder members of the Football Association to become the rules of Association football or Soccer as it became known.As for other forms of football from the same family of games, we know that the earley form of Rugby football was used as a basis for American Football and we know that Gaelic football has common rules with Australian Rules football.
Is swarthmore football better than folsom football?
Swarthmore has no football team.
Is a wet football better to throw than a dry football?
No!
