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Sports originating in Ireland

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Gaelic football
Irish team sport, form of football
hurling
Hurling (, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin. When played by women, it is called camogie ('), which shares a common Gaelic root. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much terminology. It has been labelled as the fastest field sport in the world.
camogie
Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. It is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities.
rounders
Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a batting and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a wooden, plastic, or metal bat that has a cylindrical end. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.
steeplechase
distance horse race in which competitors are required to jump diverse fence and ditch obstacles
Gaelic games
set of sports originating, and mainly played, on the island of Ireland
Gaelic handball
sport played in Ireland
cycle polo
team sport originating in Ireland; related to polo but played on bicycles
international rules football
team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players
Irish road bowling
sport played with metal balls in some parts of Ireland
pitch and putt
variant of golf
ladies' Gaelic football
women's team sport