The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael) is an organisation which is mostly focused on promoting Gaelic games - traditional Irish sports, mainly hurling and Gaelic football. The organisation also promotes handball, rounders, Irish music, dance, and the Irish language. It is the largest and most popular organization in Ireland with some 800,000 members out of the island's population of almost 6 million.
Gaelic football and hurling are the main and most popular activities promoted by the organisation, and the most popular sports in the country .
The women's version of these games, Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie, are organised by the independent but very closely linked associations of Ladies' Gaelic Football Association and Camogie Association of Ireland respectively.