GAH

[spuds]

In conversation and somebody talks about football what sport are they on about ?

[waterfordlad]

Keith Andrews was on Today fm at the weekend and kept saying he played Gah as a youngster. Its more of a Dublin thing I'd say.

[Eamonnca1]

Doesn't bother me. What bothers me more is people talking about "playing GAA" as if there was a sport called "GAA."

[Armaghgeddon]

The old lady started saying that, I thought she was having a stroke.

[cadence]

Not seen as a derogatory term in Donegal either. I wouldn't use it myself but my daughter uses it all the time.

Generational thing maybe.

we've used it up round our end of donegal for yonks, since i started playing u12, it was used at least then and probably longer because we would have picked it up from some of the older people. i'm in my 40s now. it's not used derogatory at all, used very affectionately in fact.

[gwan-ye-boy-ya]

im surprised. using this in monaghan since the 90s, in every sense.

[Jinxy]

Most of the time I hear the word 'gah', it's being used by people that are active GAA members.
So what if the odd 'bogball' clown uses it too.
In certain parts of the country it's just handier to say you play 'gah' than 'football' so as to avoid confusion with soccer.

[The Wedger]

Declan McBennett once said in the Irish Examiner

"I have grown up playing 'Gah' all my life,"

I've never met a GAA man that calls the GAA 'Gah' 🤣

https://x.com/smallerfishgaa/status/2042147673159905700?

[J70]

Spent my late teens through 20s working and going to university in Dublin. Pretty much all the Dublin lads I knew referred to it as "Gah", assuming they had any interest in the first place!

Never heard the term growing up in south Donegal. There it was simply "gaelic" while soccer was "football".

[AustinPowers]

Spent my late teens through 20s working and going to university in Dublin. Pretty much all the Dublin lads I knew referred to it as "Gah", assuming they had any interest in the first place!

Never heard the term growing up in south Donegal. There it was simply "gaelic" while soccer was "football".

I have  only ever heard  Gaelic football called  'Gaelic' and soccer 'soccer'.

Always assumed 'Gah' was  a derogatory anti-GAA  thing.

Worked with a guy  years ago , who was so anti-anything Irish , it was scary (he was a northern Catholic from a very Republican area btw).  It was as if he was from middle England, reared and brainwashed by the BBC.

Remember having conversations with him about  this  and he kept insisting he never heard soccer  referred to as 'soccer' (outside of the US anyway). I says , it's constantly called that  in Ireland, and  even the likes of Dunphy/Giles  call it soccer often , as do  many Irish players. He was such  an Anglophile though , hated all things GAA, Irish language etc , that I think he was just trying to convince himself  more than me or anyone else.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Declan McBennett once said in the Irish Examiner

"I have grown up playing 'Gah' all my life,"

I've never met a GAA man that calls the GAA 'Gah' 🤣

https://x.com/smallerfishgaa/status/2042147673159905700?

Small fish indeed. The man needs to broaden his horizons. It can be, but generally isn't a derogatory term. It's what huge swathes of the country call it.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Spent my late teens through 20s working and going to university in Dublin. Pretty much all the Dublin lads I knew referred to it as "Gah", assuming they had any interest in the first place!

Never heard the term growing up in south Donegal. There it was simply "gaelic" while soccer was "football".

I have  only ever heard  Gaelic football called  'Gaelic' and soccer 'soccer'.

Always assumed 'Gah' was  a derogatory anti-GAA  thing.

Worked with a guy  years ago , who was so anti-anything Irish , it was scary (he was a northern Catholic from a very Republican area btw).  It was as if he was from middle England, reared and brainwashed by the BBC.

Remember having conversations with him about  this  and he kept insisting he never heard soccer  referred to as 'soccer' (outside of the US anyway). I says , it's constantly called that  in Ireland, and  even the likes of Dunphy/Giles  call it soccer often , as do  many Irish players. He was such  an Anglophile though , hated all things GAA, Irish language etc , that I think he was just trying to convince himself  more than me or anyone else.

Nobody in cities or big towns calls it soccer. In Dublin you play football, Gah or hurling.

[bennydorano]

Wouldn't hear GAH mentioned round these parts. Calling Soccer Soccer would rattle a few cages too. Everything's football until you have to differentiate.

[Fogarty]

GAA haters use the term incessantly, just like they say bogball or stickfighting, which is why I avoid it.
Some GAA people use it too, that's their own business.

[In hiding]

Spent my late teens through 20s working and going to university in Dublin. Pretty much all the Dublin lads I knew referred to it as "Gah", assuming they had any interest in the first place!

Never heard the term growing up in south Donegal. There it was simply "gaelic" while soccer was "football".

I have  only ever heard  Gaelic football called  'Gaelic' and soccer 'soccer'.

Always assumed 'Gah' was  a derogatory anti-GAA  thing.

Worked with a guy  years ago , who was so anti-anything Irish , it was scary (he was a northern Catholic from a very Republican area btw).  It was as if he was from middle England, reared and brainwashed by the BBC.

Remember having conversations with him about  this  and he kept insisting he never heard soccer  referred to as 'soccer' (outside of the US anyway). I says , it's constantly called that  in Ireland, and  even the likes of Dunphy/Giles  call it soccer often , as do  many Irish players. He was such  an Anglophile though , hated all things GAA, Irish language etc , that I think he was just trying to convince himself  more than me or anyone else.

Nobody in cities or big towns calls it soccer. In Dublin you play football, Gah or hurling.

Well that is just wrong