Galway Gaa

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Galway County Boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae na Gaillimhe) or Galway GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway. The county boards are also responsible for the Galway inter-county teams. Unlike all other counties in Ireland, gaelic games are run by two separate county boards in Galway. Gaelic football is organised by the Galway football board and Hurling is organised by the Galway hurling board. This separation has resulted in two different county crests, two different county jerseys and two different team sponsors. The county crests continue to be mixed up and mis-used by the Irish Media particularly in graphics and captions. The county jerseys are also very different for the current 2010 season with the hurlers wearing a much darker shade of maroon with white pin stripes and the footballers wearing a much lighter shade of maroon. For 2010, the footballers are sponsored by Aer Arann and the hurlers are sponsored by Supermacs. Geographically the two games are quite separate in Co. Galway with football dominating in Connemara (North South), the Aran Islands, Inishbofin, North Galway and in the environs of Ballinasloe. Hurling dominates in South Galway and East Galway. Galway City is unusual as it has numerous strong teams in both hurling and football. However, they are exceptions to this rule of thumb with hurling pockets in football areas and vice-versa. Some parishes such as Monivea/Abbeyknockmoy have fielded senior teams in hurling and football in the same season.