Gaelic football

noun

1. an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net

Example Sentences

That’s when Giants kicker Jude McAtamney, who’s from Northern Ireland and grew up playing the entirely different sport of Gaelic football, missed his second extra point of the game.

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If he didn't take that time and care to look after me, I might have got into Gaelic football or hurling instead.

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Mr Donald said "loads of people" knew about his dispute with Gavin, who previously managed the Dublin men's Gaelic football team.

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He led Dublin's county Gaelic football team to six all-Ireland Senior Championship titles between 2012 and 2019.

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Another wrote on X: "I've seen B*Witched live and have watched a couple of Gaelic football games, which I think gives me an even more legitimate claim to be culturally Irish than Ed Sheeran."

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