Hurling, Football and Savage Winter Weather

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Other

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

5.9 OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES, Sport and fitness sciences

Publication Details

RTE Brainstorm, Updated / Monday, 2 Nov 2020 07:52

Abstract

Gaelic games are ideally suited to a combination of specific weather conditions: warm but not too humid, bright but overcast, with little or no wind, excellent visibility and a firm ground surface. This is a lot to ask of Ireland's notoriously disobedient weather. As the GAA prepares for a championship which begins in late autumn and concludes in the depths of winter, here's a look at matches which have been played in the most adverse of weather conditions.

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