Strange rules in the GAA - past or present

[brokencrossbar1]

Maybe only imagining it but is/was the "showing" rule that you can transfer the ball from one hand to the other legally but if you transfer it back again that's a foul.
There was a bit of a fuss about a brilliant goal scored by eoin mulligan for tyrone a few years ago.

Not a rule, but the bishop throwing in the ball at the start was strange, but maybe not in them days.

More a custom than a rule but nameing and placing the team in advance at club level. Way back when I was first making me way onto the senior team the selectors used to meet after training on Thursday night to pick the team for sunday. They wrote it up in position and put it up in the newsagent on the square in the centre of the town. Used to love checking the window going to and from school on Friday to see if I was named. The rugby and soccer clubs did the same and put them up in the same shop window so you would meet all the lads fri or sat down checking the teamsheets.

Even stranger was the lads kissing the bishops ring before the throw in!! 

Imagine asking some of the lads today to get down on one knee.

I wouldn't kiss the Bishop's ring I would

[Shamrock Shore]

All the players lining up in the centre for the throw-in was also a mad thing to behold back in the olden days.

[Milltown Row2]

I remember playing senior when the rule of handpassing the ball into the net, we'd a fullforward that when he got the ball he didn't even try and strike the ball, wee handpass into the net job done!!

[theticklemister]

Half time feg breaks; or during the game feg breaks. Our keeper was gasping for a feg and he was wearing big soccer gloves so he couldn't hold it therefore our umpire was brought into the quagmire by lighting the feg and letting the keeper puff it. Good times they were back in ................................ er.................. June 2013

[5 Sams]

I remember playing senior when the rule of handpassing the ball into the net, we'd a fullforward that when he got the ball he didn't even try and strike the ball, wee handpass into the net job done!!

Just like the Bomber then!

[Aristo 60]

It's hazy now but I remember an absolutely crazy rule which saw winning fans pile onto the pitch to celebrate landing Sam or Liam.  Yes, men, women and children (and maybe even an odd bishop?) were killed but the vast majority of those lucky enough to experience it thoroughly enjoyed it.

[johnneycool]

It's hazy now but I remember an absolutely crazy rule which saw winning fans pile onto the pitch to celebrate landing Sam or Liam.  Yes, men, women and children (and maybe even an odd bishop?) were killed but the vast majority of those lucky enough to experience it thoroughly enjoyed it.

Try telling that to the thousands of Limerick fans a few weeks back.

[Aristo 60]

Law breaking the norm in Limerick 

[washed_up]

the linesman placing the ball for the sideline kick-especially when he was from the other team really sent the temperature up