How popular is Gaelic football?

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• Sherbrook Melbourne AustraliaPosts: 137MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  perdogg wrote:

  I cannot understand why this has not caught on in the US. I think it is much more exciting than soccer.
  
  Are there any fans here? I also like Australian Rules Football.

  
  
  I believe that Australian Rules football is the closest relative to Gaelic football

  I must be dreaming
• Sir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,443Chief of Staff

  March 2013

  I would guess the simple answer is that there is no money to be made in that game....football is the number one global sport and generates fantastic amounts of money...

  YNWA 97
  
• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  I think every year there is a Gaelic and Australian rules series
  of matches with very little changes of the rules for Both sports.
  Gaelic is an Amateur sport, so will never have the kind of
  Money Soccer gets world wide.
  Although it is a fantastic game, very fast and exciting. I
  myself prefer it to Football. ( Gaelic is like rugby, with Boxing ) )

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• Sherbrook Melbourne AustraliaPosts: 137MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Thunderpussy wrote:

  I think every year there is a Gaelic and Australian rules series
  of matches with very little changes of the rules for Both sports.
  Gaelic is an Amateur sport, so will never have the kind of
  Money Soccer gets world wide.
  Although it is a fantastic game, very fast and exciting. I
  myself prefer it to Football. ( Gaelic is like rugby, with Boxing ) )

  
  Unfortunately that series has often degenerated into fistfights
  
  Lately the Irish have a good record against Australia as far as the actual games are concerned

  I must be dreaming
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,828MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Unfortunately far too popular - I blame it on the Gaelic revival of the late C19th. The Irish always have to do everything different, even the barcodes on the back of their newspapers are in a different place from their UK counterparts. Need I say more...

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  N.Ireland also has the Only City in the world that
  Introduces itself like Bond. It's
  
  Derry, Londonderry. )

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,828MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Thunderpussy wrote:

  N.Ireland also has the Only City in the world that
  Introduces itself like Bond. It's
  
  Derry, Londonderry. )

  
  Yes, it's called Stroke City for a reason - even the blinking trains have a female voice saying "This is the train for Derry/Londonderry" for heaven's sake. )

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• LoGabrielle IrelandPosts: 111MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Gaelic is very much a country game. Cities have more diversity but GAA is most common in rural areas. Personally, I have no interest in Gaelic but where I live we have a strong tradition of rugby. I'm not surprised it hasn't taken off elsewhere.

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• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,828MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  And GAA places are still named after IRA murderers - despicable. X-(

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