ABSTRACT
Gaelic football teams with sports science support systems may benefit by gaining advantage over their opponents by being better trained and prepared. Current sport science knowledge of Gaelic football has been garnered from other field games, with limited research existing into the sport itself (Reilly and Collins, 2008). Gaelic football is an intermittent high intensity team game with higher work-rates than that observed for FA Premier League soccer players. In Gaelic football the players are required to perform longer higher intensity bursts with shorter recovery than their professional counterparts (O'Donoghue and King, 2004). The physiological demands of the game mean that players must be competent in several aspects of fitness which include: aerobic and anaerobic power, muscle strength, flexibility and agility (Reilly and Doran, 2001).
