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Originally Posted by The Celtbot
When I was on vacation in Ireland we watched quite a bit of gaelic football. We went to the all ireland hurling championship semi finals and that was great. We were surrounded by hundreds of Cork fans who adopted us into they're fan base. We got pictures with borrowed scarfs, flags, and rebel hats. Since I live in America I can't exactly follow it too well. We do have the north american setanta and I can watch some matches.
I do have some questions about gaelic football and hurling. All I know is that there is championships during the summer. Is there an actual season for all the counties to compete in or is it small tournaments before the major championship in the summer? I'd like to follow it better, however I have no idea what the structure of the matches are.
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The lead into the All Ireland Championships starts at the begining of the year with pre-season tournaments which are provincial based such as the O'Byrne Cup in Leinster for football.
Then the season officially gets under way with the kick off of the National League. The National League is 7-8 games depending on your divisions size and is run on a league basis with promotion and relegation. At the end each year are playoffs leading to a National League winner and then the Championship seasons gets under way. Right now the National League is 2 rounds in.