The Yorkshire Board of the

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...

(GAA) or Yorkshire GAA, is one of the county boards of the GAA outside

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, and is responsible for

Gaelic games Gaelic games ( ga, Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the ...

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...

. The county board is also responsible for the Yorkshire

county team A county is a geographic region within Gaelic games, controlled by a county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and originally based on the 32 counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the administrative geography of Ireland has ...

Football

Clubs

* Brothers Pearse (Huddersfield) * Cú Chulainn's GAC (Newcastle) * Hugh O'Neills (Leeds) * JFKs (Leeds) * St Benedict's Harps (Leeds) * St Vincent’s (Sheffield) * Young Irelands (Leeds) * York GAA (York) Clubs contest the Yorkshire Senior Football Championship.

County team

Yorkshire currently compete in the All-Britain Junior Football Championship.

Hurling

Clubs

* Yorkshire Emeralds (Leeds) Clubs contest the Warwickshire Senior Hurling Championship.

County team

Yorkshire has never competed in the

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, known simply as the All-Ireland Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurling competition i ...

Yorkshire Senior Football Championship

List of Finals

External links

Official Provincial Council of Britain GAA website
British GAA GAA Gaelic games governing bodies in the United Kingdom {{GAA-stub