A unique venue of sports.
It is the home of the Gaelic Athletic Association, (GAA), Ireland’s largest cultural and sporting organisation. Every year it hosts the All-Ireland Football and Hurling Championship Finals.
The GAA, remains an amateur association. On game days scores of volunteers work around the stadium to keep spectators safe and well. Perhaps more remarkably in modern times, the players are amateurs as well, and they only play for the county of their birth. At the weekend they may perform in front of thousands of fans, but on Monday morning they will be back work.
The history of Gaelic sports is well documented at the museum situated inside the stadium. Also, the events of Bloody Sunday, 21st November 1920, when British forces opened fire on the crowd attending a Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary. Several lives were lost and many were wounded.
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