Ladies' Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach na mBan) is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. It is increasing in popularity in other countries around the world, often by members of the Irish diaspora.
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The game is very similar to the male form of Gaelic football, where two teams of 15 players kick or punch a round ball towards goals at either end of a grass pitch. There are two main competitions in this sport; the National League which is staged during the winter-spring months and is used as a warm-up to the All-Ireland Championship which is played during the summer. The All-Ireland Final is played on the last Sunday in September or the first Sunday in October in Croke Park, Dublin, where the winners receive the Brendan Martin Cup. The National League and Championship are organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association.
Although most of the rules of the game are parallel to those for men's Gaelic football, there are some differences. The main ones are:
Carolyn Pickering
The Casements are a young women's team working on the development of the game in the Toronto region
The Chieftainettes have competed in the west and are currently supporting the development of Celtic games.
The team of the decade thus far in Western Canada, having won the Western Canadian Championships 3 times out of the 4 played.
In 2007 they became the first team other than the Edmonton ladies to win the Championship.
Winners of the 2007 Junior B North American Gaelic Football Championship
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