[DOC] [TLE] Gaelic football - Wikipedia [PAR] Gaelic football commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is an Irish team sport. It 
is played .... A six-a-side version was played in Dublin in the early 18th century, 
and 100 ... the 1860s and 1870s, Rugby football started to become popular in 
Ireland. ... The very first game of Gaelic Football under GAA rules (developed by... [DOC] [TLE] Hurling - Wikipedia [PAR] Hurling (Irish: iomnaocht/iomint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic 
and Irish origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The game 
has prehistoric origins, and has been played 3,000 years. One of Ireland's native 
Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the .... 
A hurling pitch is similar in some respects to a rugby pitch but larger. [DOC] [TLE] Comparison of Gaelic football and rugby union - Wikipedia [PAR] A comparison of Gaelic football and rugby union is possible because of certain 
similarities ... Both codes are organised on an all-Ireland basis, with provincial 
bodies. ... Gaelic football aims at a more open kind of play, and as such falls 
between ... A rugby union game is divided into two-halves of 40 minutes (or 
shorter for... [DOC] [TLE] Traditional Irish Sports - Gaelic Football and Hurling [PAR] The traditional Irish sports of Gaelic football and Hurling have a huge ... Huge 
numbers of women also play both sports (the female version of hurling is called ... 
Soccer in Ireland is played generally to a semi-professional level while rugby has 
... It's a game of 15 men against 15 on a grass pitch, a good 20 metres (about 20
... [DOC] [TLE] Gaelic Football - The Original Beautiful Game - YouTube [PAR] Aug 22, 2010 - 5 min - Uploaded by EamonnGaelic football combines the suspense of soccer, the skills and ... It originated in  Ireland ... [DOC] [TLE] Why Ireland's version of football is better than the ... - Business Insider [PAR] Sep 17, 2015 ... Why Ireland's version of football is better than the NFL ... This fast game 
combines elements of several sports, including soccer, rugby, and even 
basketball, just to name a few. ... GAA athletes play because they love the sport 
and want to ... An NFL game is a stop-start affair, but Gaelic football is an energy
... [DOC] [TLE] Gaelic Football - DoChara [PAR] Sep 17, 2008 ... ... field game in Ireland, Gaelic football is an amateur sport played in almost all ... 
Soccer and Rugby, though it is older than either game, Gaelic... [DOC] [TLE] Gaelic football | sport | Britannica.com [PAR] Gaelic football, Irish version of football (soccer), an offshoot of Britain's medieval 
... Gaelic football is not played much outside Ireland and the United States; the 
winners of ... ancient and medieval game, a predecessor of modern football (
soccer), in which a ... It has some similarities to traditional football (soccer) and 
rugby. [DOC] [TLE] The History of Gaelic Football and the Gaelic Athletic Association [PAR] The Gaelic games of football, hurling, camogie, and handball are far removed 
from the ... games became a major religious and sporting festival on the Irish 
calendar. ... association and rugby. ... A six-a-side version was played in Dublin 
in the. [DOC] [TLE] Ireland : a very political sporting summer - Le Journal International [PAR] Gaelic football is played on a rugby pitch with a ball a little heavier than a ... and a 
feminine version also exists (the game lasts 60 minutes instead of 70, the... [DOC] [TLE] Why are rugby-style ball games (American Football, Aussie-rules ... [PAR] You need to go back a bit further in time. Its football that is fragmented - all the 
other codes you ... Posts have Rugby, North American Football, Gaelic and 
Australian Football. ... adopted slightly different rules to play, the story being that 
that version of the game caught on locally by that name -- http://www.flicklives.
com/index. [DOC] [TLE] irish sports - The

Question: The Irish play Gaelic, soccer & rugby versions of this game
Answer: football