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[[File:GAA games in Sorrento.jpg|upright|thumb|Gaelic games are present across the world. This sign in [[Sorrento]], Italy, advertises that Gaelic games are shown in the bar.]]
'''Gaelic games''' ({{lang-ga|Cluichí Gaelacha}}) are sports played in [[Ireland]] under the auspices of the [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] (GAA). They include [[Gaelic football]], [[hurling]], [[Gaelic handball]], and [[rounders]]. Women's versions of hurling and football are also played: [[camogie]], organised by the [[Camogie Association of Ireland]], and [[ladies' Gaelic football]], organised by the [[Ladies' Gaelic Football Association]]. While women's versions are not organised by the GAA (with the exception of handball, where men's and women's handball competitions are both organised by the [[GAA Handball]] organisation), they are closely associated with it.<ref>{{cite book | last = Moran | first = Mary | author-link = Mary Moran (camogie) | title = A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie | publisher = Cumann Camógaíochta | year = 2011 | location = Dublin, Ireland|
Gaelic games clubs exist all over the world.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.joe.ie/sport/infographic-the-number-of-gaa-clubs-in-every-county-in-ireland-and-every-continent-around-the-world-420318|title=Infographic: The number of GAA clubs in every county in Ireland and every continent around the world|publisher=[[Joe.ie]]}}</ref> They are Ireland's most popular sports, ahead of [[rugby union]] and [[association football]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/other-sport/2021/0126/1192163-gaelic-games-remains-irelands-most-popular-sport/|title=Gaelic games remains Ireland's most popular sport|publisher=[[RTÉ Sport]]|date=26 January 2021}}</ref> Almost a million people (977,723) attended 45 GAA senior championships games in 2017 (up 29% in hurling and 22% in football on 2016 figures) combined with attendances at other championship and league games generating [[gate receipts]] of €34,391,635.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.the42.ie/gaa-gate-receipts-3825747-Jan2018/ | title = GAA gate receipts up 13%, annual revenue up €5m and attendances increase by 24% | date = 31 January 2018 | website = the42.ie }}</ref>
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