Footballing Achievements

Football is a sport that is taken both serious and not so serious. It is something that brings you to another world a different level and lets you let loose. It is a game that helps you to bond with people and make new friends and also to work on you team work skills

Gaelic Football is a team game and can not be played without 15players. A game that brings people together to work as one in order to achieve.

There are many different competitions and tournaments for ladies football on both club and county levels.
for example in my home town we have
--> a mid Kerry league - This involves teams from the mid Kerry region to play games against eachother and in
      the end a cup is given to the winning team.
--> County Championship - this is a competition for all the teams in Kerry. Very similar to the mid Kerry league
      except there are more teams.
The County Championship competition has a continuation and gives clubs the chance to represent their province and reach the All-Ireland final. This is very tough to reach and is something that majority of clubs train so hard for all year round.


There are also a lot of 7 aside leagues and challenge games to be played throughout the year.


Playing for your county team is on the list of one of  the highest achievements you can make when playing Gaelic football. Here you can go on to winning out your Provence and continuing onto All Ireland level success.

Trecking To Training

Hey everyone,
I'm back again. Hopefully by now those of you that didn't know anything about Gaelic football surly know a lot, or at least the basics. But the one thing that I haven't mentioned is that football like most other sports that requires to train all year round. Unfortunately this means training in the sun, rain, hail and yes even in the snow.
As a player myself I know that getting up from a warm comfy spot on the couch to a freezing cold football pitch is something that I dread. Even the thought of getting up is horrible never mind actually going forward with it. But if your a dedicated footballer you gotta do what you gotta do, and if that means you end up looking like a drowned rat after a session then that is what you got to look like to get your position on the team.

Making that effort to go to training has been quite difficult for me lately. Dublin being soo much colder than Kerry and the treck to training is considerably longer than any treck to training I have ever had to make =[. The hour long journey to training has been a thought that I have somehow managed to slip into the back of my mind lately and  have had to persuade my self COMPLETELY to get up out of my warm apartment and go to.

How to Play Gaelic Football

This video gives the low down about the game,
I hope it is helpful to anyone who does not know how to play it.

Best gaa football goals ever

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where to learn more about ladies gaa

Want to know more about ladies gaa...

Don't know where to look..

Well iI have left a link here to help you :)


http://www.ladiesgaelic.ie/

some GAA rules

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tra- tra- tra- training

Today I had my first training session with the Trinity ladies and oh my god I thought I would never make it to the pitch never mind to have a training session after it...ha. Not only did I have to get the bus from Griffith I didn't know if I was going in the right direction or not. When i meet the rest of the football girl I was informed that we were going to walk another twenty to twenty five minutes to the actual football pitch. At this stage I was absolutly starving as I hadn't eaten after my long day in college...=[

Training was fun and I meet alot of new people  but of course me being me can only remember about four names but hopefully I will remember more the next time. My new trainer is very nice and takes ladies GAA very seriously. I'm glad that he has such an interest in ladies football as we need as many people as possible folllowing us and our sport. I hope that I am able to continue playing with Trinity and the distance to training will not be a problem. =]

In hope of finding a team

As I previously mentioned that my College does not have a ladies gaelic football team, I decided to get up off my ass andtry to persuade another college to let me play football with them. So off I went to the bus stop and  fifteen minutes later I was standing outside Trinity College in hope that I would be allowed to play my favourite sport with them.

Of course they wanted my details , the usual name...number...address..club...etc. before I even remotely get started. But as soon as they heard I was from Kerry they didnt seem to bat an eyelid (just kidding):P Thankfully they decided to let me play with the Trinity ladies football team and I have my first training session tomorrow at half six. =]

I will be keeping you posted with how me and my journey to Trinity goes, I hope you keep dropping by in order to find out how i get on :)

Laters...=]

Welcome to my blog Griff Girls In Shorts.

My name is Aishling Clifford and I am a first year student in Griffith College Dublin. Over the next few months I will be regularly updating my blog in hope you that you will all enjoy it and realise that GAA is not just for those hairy, awkward species we call men..

As a born and raised Country girl Gaelic Football has always played a big part of my life. For as long as i can remember I have always been involved in sport whether it be football, basketball or even the odd bit of soccer. As the years have gone by and i have got..urm..? taller... it has become very clear to me that ladies sport in general and GAA especially is not seen to be very popular.

I have decided to write this blog to inform others about ladies sport but especially and mainly about ladies gaelic football.
I feel that ladies gaelic football as a sport is not recognised enough, especially in my College in Dublin. As a student in Griffith College I am unable to continue playing my favourite sport here as we do not have a team, as a result I have had to contact another college to play. I'm sure that I am not the only student that has have had to do this and hope to find others who are in the same boat as I am

In the next couple of weeks I will be blogging about my love of sport,about ladies GAA  I  will try to make my blog as interesting and exciting and as enjoyable as I possibly can and hope you will visit on a regular basis :)