The New South Wales Board ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste An Bhreatain Bheag Nua ó Dheas) or New South Wales GAA is a division of the Australasian

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), 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 ...

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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

. The board is also responsible for the New South Wales state team. The board contains clubs from

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mounta ...

and

Wollongong Wollongong ( ), colloquially referred to as The Gong, is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near w ...

, playing

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by ki ...

hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...

and

camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men onl ...

. The games are played at Monarch Oval in Ingleburn.

Gaelic football clubs

*Bondi Gaels * Young Ireland Sydney *Michael Cusacks *Penrith Gaels *Cormac McAnallan's *Wollongong Leprachauns *Clan na Gael

Hurling clubs

*Michael Cusack's *St Pat's *Shamrocks *Central Coast

Women's Gaelic football clubs

*Clan na Gael *Michael Cusack's *Central Coast *Cormac McAnallan's (formerly Irish Aussies)

External links

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New South Wales GAA site
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Gaelic football clubs

Hurling clubs

Women's Gaelic football clubs

See also

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