Belated, but quick update!
Our UNC GAA trainings will be held at Hooker Fields on UNC campus every Friday from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM. We have Hooker Fields 4 (the one closest to the parking lot) reserved for us during that time every week, so please come out!
So, we’ve gone and made ourselves a Facebook page, which should see more frequent updates and be responsive to questions and comments!
This page will be a primary resource for scheduling and information, but please Like and Follow the FB page for the latest (and greatest) information!
Unless you don’t do that Facebooky sorta thing, and then I suppose this page will have to do.
Cheers!
— UNC Irish Sports and Culture Club (now on Facebook!)
Gaelic Football
Description:
It’s not American football. It’s not soccer. It’s not rugby. Gaelic football is played on a field larger than a soccer or American football field. To score, a player must get a soccer-type ball into the net of a goal (for three points or what is called a ‘goal’) or through the uprights above the goal (for one point or what is called a ‘point’). Gaelic footballers use their hands and there is no off-sides. To move the ball, a player is allowed to kick it, punch it (but not throw it), run with the ball for four strides, bounce it (only once before or after every solo) or solo it (to drop the ball to one’s foot and tap it back into one’s hands while running, remembering not to take more than four strides in between solos).
No other sport offers you the thrill of soccer, the tactics of rugby and the skill of basketball!
The UNC Irish Sports and Culture Club website was setup in August 2014 and aims to bring Irish Sports information to the community University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
