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.