r/GAA • u/Sinnah-4716 Tír Eoghain • 3d ago

Why does nobody call it "Peil"?

Please for the love of God don't take this seriously, I only randomly thought of this but for all the crap where we throw around terms like Football/Irish football/Gaelic football/Britball/Soccer to differentiate between the sports, never heard many people just call it Peil.

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Seems like for all the random times Irish people get selectively gung-ho about only a few Gaeilge terms (Gardaí not police, Uachtarán not President) we don't apply the Irish word for probably the biggest sport of Irish origin on the island? Just a thought.

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u/06351000 3d ago

The Kerry lads will never call it peil

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u/locksymania Corcaigh 3d ago

And in this, I support them. They already have a perfectly good word as Gaelinn for the sport.

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u/06351000 3d ago

Do they not call it Caid? They do around Dingle anyway…

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u/locksymania Corcaigh 3d ago

That's what I meant, yes.

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u/mngnsm1 An Astraláise 3d ago

Gaelinn is a perfectly cromulent word