doctormalisimo
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I'm not sure how many people here have even heard of GAA 
GAA stands for Gaelic Athletics Association. It's the body in charge of Irish soprts such as Gaelic football, hurling and camogie.
Gaelic football (sometimes just called gaelic, or football) is a really physical and rough sport played between two teams of 15. The aim is to get more points than the other team. Scoring in the bottom part of the net is worth 3 points, and scoring in the top part (the goalposts look like those used in rugby and american football) is worth one point.
Wikipedia explains it better than me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football
Hurling is played with sticks and the scoring is the same as the scoring in Gaelic football. There are complicated rules about how the ball can be handled, which again Wikipedia can explain very well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling
Here's a clip from the All-Ireland Gaelic final in 2008
GAA stands for Gaelic Athletics Association. It's the body in charge of Irish soprts such as Gaelic football, hurling and camogie.
Gaelic football (sometimes just called gaelic, or football) is a really physical and rough sport played between two teams of 15. The aim is to get more points than the other team. Scoring in the bottom part of the net is worth 3 points, and scoring in the top part (the goalposts look like those used in rugby and american football) is worth one point.
Wikipedia explains it better than me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football
Hurling is played with sticks and the scoring is the same as the scoring in Gaelic football. There are complicated rules about how the ball can be handled, which again Wikipedia can explain very well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling
Here's a clip from the All-Ireland Gaelic final in 2008