Just like Australian Football, Gaelic football has rich origins and is steeped in tradition.
Supporters love the game and flock to it in big numbers.
By Donal Keenan. Croke Park Stadium, Central Dublin. September 26, 1998. That figure brought the total attendance for the Gaelic football championship in 1998, which runs from May to September, to a little over one million. Such is the appetite of the Irish supporter that almost half the games played were watched by a capacity audience.