Gaelic Football is best described as a mixture of soccer and rugby, though it predates both of these. It is a field game which is also similar to Australian Rules Football. It is believed that Australian Rules Football evolved from Gaelic Football through the thousands of Irish people who were either deported or have emigrated to Australia since the middle of the nineteenth century. The origins of Gaelic football predate recorded history, while the Gaelic Athletic Association(GAA) was set up in 1884 by a nationalist Michael Cusack. Today one of the main stands at Croke Park in Dublin is named after him. The GAA was set up to not only promote gaelic games(football, hurling, handball, camogie and rounders), but also to promote the Irish language, music and dance. Today it is the largest sporting association in Ireland

"Gaelic Football is played on a pitch approximately 137m long and 82m wide. The goalposts are the same shape as on a rugby pitch, with the crossbar lower than a rugby one and slightly higher than a soccer one.The ball used in Gaelic Football is round, slightly smaller than a soccer ball. It can be carried in the hand for a distance of four steps and can be kicked or "hand-passed", a striking motion with the hand or fist. After every four steps the ball must be either bounced or "solo-ed", an action of dropping the ball onto the foot and kicking it back into the hand. You may not bounce the ball twice in a row. To score, you put the ball over the crossbar by foot or hand / fist for one point or under the crossbar and into the net by foot or the hand / fist in certain circumstances for a goal, the latter being the equivalent of three points.

"Each team consists of fifteen players, lining out as follows: One goalkeeper, three full-backs, three half-backs, two midfielders, three half-forwards and three full-forwards. Goalkeepers may not be physically challenged whilst inside their own small parallelogram, but players may harass them into playing a bad pass, or block an attempted pass."