Dual County

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Dual county is a term used in Gaelic games to describe a GAA county that competes at a similar level in both hurling and gaelic football. For example, Galway play in Division 1 in both the NHL and NFL.

Generally recognised dual counties include:

• Carlow
• Cork
• Galway
• Laois
• New York
• Offaly
• Westmeath

Only Tipperary and Cork have won both premier men's competitions, the All-Ireland Senior Hurling and All-Ireland Senior Football championships in the same year. Tipperary won both in 1895 and 1900, while Cork won both in 1890 and 1990. Tipperary would today be regarded as primarily a hurling county having not won a major senior football title since 1935. In recent years Dublin have been making great improvements in hurling and may well be become a genuine dual county in the years to come.

Dual player is a similar phrase used to describe players who plays both sports.