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The All-Ireland Football
Final is held at Croke Park in
Dublin. The top two counties
play for this Gaelic football
championship. More people
watch the game than any
other event in Ireland.

Cork Week is a biennial regatta, organized
by Royal Cork Yacht Club, where crews and
boats of all classes meet and compete.

Greyhound Derby,
run at Shelbourne
Park, Dublin
The Dublin Marathon is
Ireland’s foremost marathon
Galway Race Week is one event. It attracts a huge field
of Ireland’s premier festival including top-class athletes from
meetings and a popular around the world.
social event.

June July August September October November December

Millstreet Indoor International
Football Association of showjumping event
Ireland Cup – the
Republic’s football final

The Gaelic Athletic Association
The GAA was founded in 1884 to promote
indigenous Irish sport. Today, despite heavy
competition from soccer, the most popular sport
in Ireland remains Gaelic football. Its rules are
somewhere between rugby and soccer,
though it predates both games. In
The Dublin Horse Show it, the ball can be carried and
is Ireland’s premier horse points scored over the goalpost.
show and a major event in Another intriguing GAA game is hurling, a fast
the social calendar. and physical field sport played with sticks and
said to have originated in ancient Celtic times.
Both games are played at parish and county level
on a wholly amateur basis. The season ends with
the All-Ireland finals, which draw large
All-Ireland and passionate crowds to Dublin.
Hurling Final
at Croke
Park, Dublin
Camogie, a version of hurling played by women

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