Bernard O'Shea: the birds and the bees of the GAA

As thousands of school kids are dropped off at Cúl Camps to kick and puck points at GAA pitches all around the country its time to explain the Birds and The Bees of The GAA to my kids.

Trying to explain the rules of anything to kids can be tricky. Photograph Moya Nolan

Our eldest who is seven has just finished her first summer outing in a Cúl Camp. She is mostly into dancing and singing and was slightly confused before she went for the first time.

“Is it the game with the iron sticks that you play on ice?” she asked her mother. We later deduced she had mixed up golf and ice hockey. (A game that I would love to see.) On her return home she was instantly infatuated with all things GAA.