County sports in Ireland

mr.jingle

How many sports in Ireland have county teams?

Obvious one being the Gaa in football and hurling but how many other sports have county teams that compete in an All-Ireland

I know darts, pitch and putt, badminton but is there many others

Markball

Handball is another one

Clareman

Soccer has some kind of competition as well, I think there used to be a golf competition of some sort as well. I think athletics compete on a county level sometimes as well, as do snooker and pool.

feargale

Clareman wrote: »

Soccer has some kind of competition as well, I think there used to be a golf competition of some sort as well. I think athletics compete on a county level sometimes as well, as do snooker and pool.

Apart from GAA, very few sports in Ireland are organised on an inter-county basis. Soccer has the Oscar Traynor Cup for county selections of players from junior teams. Basketball was inter-county until the sixties, maybe later, but not anymore. The latter-day Tailteann Games are inter-county. It's not a very practical idea for a sport that has for the most part one or two clubs per county, or perhaps none at all. But it has been one of the great strengths of the GAA, especially in terms of popular support, and I used to think that a Rugby competition between teams of natives of relevant counties could generate popular appeal. However, European club competitions have probably rendered that idea irrelevant.

Beasty

The Ras in cycling has County teams made up of domestic/amateur riders (and a prize for the best "county" rider), although I'm not aware of any other races organised on this basis - team list for 2012 here

There's certainly no "all-Ireland" competition though