Connacht GAA


Connacht GAA or formally the Connacht Provincial Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association is the governing body for Gaelic games that are played in the province of Connacht, Ireland. It performs a supervisory and appeal role for the five County Boards within the province. Anomalously, it also exercises its functions for an additional two County Boards that are not located in the province: London GAA and New York GAA. Teams from these administrative areas play in the Connacht Senior Football Championship.

Constituent counties

There is currently no Connacht hurling championship but the Connacht GAA board has had Senior and Junior hurling championships in the past. The game is very strong in Galway but much weaker in the other four counties of the province. The Connact inter-provincial team usually consists of 14 or 15 Galway players and perhaps one or two from the other counties.
The Connacht camogie team won the premier representative competition in the women’s team field sport of camogie, the Gael Linn Cup on four occasions in 1973, 1974, 2000 and 2008,

Camogie Gael Linn Trophy

The Connacht provincial junior camogie team won the Gael Linn Trophy on four occasions in 1981, 1995, 2006 and 2009,