Gaelic games county colours

Gaelic games county colours

The county colours of an Irish county are the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the inter-county competitions of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The most important of these are the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Fans attending matches often wear replica jerseys, and wave flags and banners in the county colours. In the build-up to a major match, flags and bunting are flown or hung from cars, buildings, telegraph poles, and other fixtures across the county, especially in those regions where GAA support is strong.

Where a county's jersey is multi-coloured, these are the county colours. Where the jersey is a single colour, the colour of the shorts is also included. Shorts were formerly always white, but some counties adopted coloured shorts from the 1960s, such as Dublin's now familiar navy blue.

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Fans of Cork (red and white) and Meath (green and yellow) on Hill 16 in Croke Park watching the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 2007 semifinal.

While each county council has a coat of arms, there are no official county flags. Flags with the GAA county colours serve as de facto county flags. However, there are no standardised formats for these, except Kildare whose flag, like their kit, is all-white. Typically, flags are formed as vertical bicolours or tricolours. Usually, the major colour is nearer the hoist. Moreover, horizontal stripes are used by some individuals. (This is common in County Offaly, where vertical county colours might be mistaken for the flag of Ireland; however other Offaly fans deliberately exploit this double significance.)

Flags with checkerboard, repeating stripes, and other patterns are also found. In recent years, flags have been commercially produced which feature the county's GAA logo on the flag. These logos are sometimes based on the official county coat-of-arms, but some have been replaced with unrelated designs. Fans may also wave other flags of the appropriate colours. For example, among the red-and-white flags used by individual Cork GAA supporters have been the flag of Canada and the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. As Cork is nicknamed the "Rebel County", its fans have also flown the Rebel Flag of the American Civil War. With the Blue and Gold flags used by individual Tipperary GAA supporters, there has been the Flag of Sweden and the Flag of Ukraine.

Connacht

Flag County Description
Colours of Galway.svg Galway Maroon and White
Colours of Leitrim.svg Leitrim Green and Gold
Colours of Mayo.svg Mayo Green and Red
Colours of Roscommon.svg Roscommon Primrose and Blue
Colours of Sligo.svg Sligo Black and White

Leinster

Flag County Description
Colours of Leinster Council.svg Leinster Council Green and White
Colours of Carlow.svg Carlow Green, Red and Yellow
Colours of Dublin.svg Dublin Sky Blue and Navy Blue
Colours of Fingal.svg Fingal Purple and White
Colours of Kildare.svg Kildare All White
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Kilkenny Black and Amber
Colours of Laois.svg Laois Blue and White
Colours of Roscommon.svg Longford Blue and Gold
Colours of Cork.svg Louth Red and White
Colours of Leitrim.svg Meath Green and Gold
Colours of Offaly.svg Offaly Green, White and Gold
Colours of Galway.svg Westmeath Maroon and White
Colours of Wexford.svg Wexford Purple and Gold
Colours of Roscommon.svg Wicklow Blue and Gold

Munster

Flag County Description
Colours of Clare.svg Clare Saffron and Blue
Colours of Cork.svg Cork Red and White
Colours of Leitrim.svg Kerry Green and Gold
Colours of Leinster Council.svg Limerick Green and White
Colours of Roscommon.svg Tipperary Blue and Gold
Colours of Monaghan.svg Waterford White and Blue

Ulster

Flag County Description
Colours of Antrim.svg Antrim Saffron and White
Colours of Armagh.svg Armagh Orange and White
Colours of Laois.svg Cavan Blue and White
Colours of Leitrim.svg Donegal Green and Gold
Colours of Down.svg Down &
South Down
Red and Black
Colours of Leinster Council.svg Fermanagh Green and White
Colours of Cork.svg Derry Red and White
Colours of Monaghan.svg Monaghan White and Blue
Colours of Tyrone.svg Tyrone White and Red

Overseas county boards

Some areas outside Ireland are treated as "counties" by the GAA, and their representative teams naturally have standard kit colours like the Irish counties.

Flag County Description
Colours of Leinster Council.svg London Green and White
Colours of Laois.svg New York Blue and White
Colours of Sligo.svg Warwickshire White and Black

See also

References


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