Galway vs Kerry in GAA with my 3 sons

qurator last year

Manually curated by EwkaW from the @qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

ablaze last year

Nice one @ewkaw and @qurator, thanks a mil

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cryptoandcoffee last year

Pretty cool they love their sports and happy to see your team won and now go into the finals. This would mean another day out unless you have to travel and cannot make it.

ablaze last year

Ya it was a great win and the lads really enjoyed the day out. The final is this Sunday in Croke Park in Dublin, I'm not sure whether we'll make it up.

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seki1 last year

They look absolutely ecstatic 😂😂

When you said football, at first I thought of soccer or the American football...
Sad that I can't recognize the ball used...

It looks some how like a volleyball 🏐

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ablaze last year

They look absolutely ecstatic 😂😂

Ha ha.

The ball looks a bit like a volleyball alright but that's the end of the similarities. Its heavier than a soccer ball and is the same size as an adult size 5 soccer ball.

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seki1 last year

Hmmmm

Irish football huh...

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wolfgangsport last year

haha was gonna say the same thing, the boys look chuffed

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wolfgangsport last year

Gaelic football is so intriguing and similar to Aussies Rules we've got locally. How common is it to speak Gaelic in every day situations out of curiosity?

ablaze last year

Hey man, ya very similar to Aussie rules which is a great sport too, although our game is still amateur.

Gaeilge is making a resurgence now which is great as it was in danger of dying out. Some pockets of Ireland speak it as their first language, these areas are called Gaeltachts - this map shows some of them.

As you can see they are primarily in the West, I live just inside the Connemara one in Galway, so some of my friends I golf with are Irish speakers at home.

Everyone learns Irish from age 4 to 17 at school but for years the teaching methodology was lacking, and for me the emphasis should be on culture and the spoken word. Sláinte.

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wolfgangsport last year

thanks for sharing the map bro! Wow thats so interesting man. Forgive my ignorance, I presume no Gaeltachts in Northern Ireland isn't by coincidence?

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ablaze last year

It's mainly only the West of Ireland - Galway, Mayo, Donegal, Kerry mainly and some in Cork and a little pocket in Meath where Connemara natives ended up....

From Wiki: "The Meath Gaeltacht has a history quite different from that of the country's other Irish speaking regions. The Ráth Cairn Gaeltacht was founded in 1935 when 41 families from Connemara in West Galway were resettled on land previously acquired by the Irish Land Commission. Each was given 9 hectares (22 acres) to farm. Baile Ghib (formerly Gibbstown) was settled in the same way in 1937, along with Baile Ailin (formerly Allenstown). In the early years, a large percentage of the population returned to Galway or emigrated, but enough Irish speakers remained to ensure that Ráth Cairn and Baile Ghib were awarded Gaeltacht status in 1967. The original aim of spreading the Irish language into the local community met with no success, and the colonists had to become bilingual.[38]"

But ya no Gaeltacht in Northern Ireland, but lots of Catholics would learn and love the language.

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owasco last year

This post made me really happy, and I don't know much about soccer. But I do know about happy young sportspersons, and proud happy fathers. I'm glad you all had such a lovely day.

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ablaze last year

Hey there,thanks a million, they had a great day out and seem to be picking up my love of sports!

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