BETTING ON GAELIC SPORTS
Gaelic sports (Gaelic football and hurling) are some of the most popular sports played in Ireland in terms of supporter attendances and even online betting. Even if these sports are not played in many parts of the world, they still attract a large number of bettors and that's why all major online bookmakers have them in their betting offer.
As we first said, Gaelic sports are very popular in Ireland because that's the country where most of the competitions are hosted by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). In fact, when browsing the betting offer of some online bookmakers you'll notice that the sport category has the "GAA" description, not "Gaelic Sports".
There are/were many other Gaelic games, including Gaelic handball, Rounders, Gaelic Athletics, but the most popular are Gaelic football and hurling. Gaelic football started to become popular in Ireland since 1802 (with origins and references which go back to 1308), while hurling is ancient Gaelic game played for over 3000 years - which still gets lots of attention in Ireland and all over the world where there are Irish communities.
Betting on Gaelic sports isn't a difficult task because you can easily find online bookmakers which offer Gaelic sporting events with many betting markets. At some online bookmakers, such as Paddy Power - you can even find special cashback promotions (it is understandable, considering that Paddy Power is an Irish bookmaker).
In terms of betting types or markets available for Gaelic sports you should know that you have from where to choose. There's a really big variety of online betting sites available which provide one or more from the following Gaelic sports betting markets:
o Match betting - you can bet on the outcome of the match (usually, only on regulation time);
o Handicap betting;
o Match markets (including alternatives);
o Double result 5-Way;
o First goalscorer, last goalscorer, anytime goalscorer;
o First scoring play, last scoring play 1st half, first scoring play 2nd half, first points of 2nd half, last scoring play, team to score 1st;
o Half betting (half time result), Half time/full time;
o First team to score;
o Both team to score a goal or more;
o Total goal markets;
o First goal and result;
o Game total odd/even and team total odd/even;
o Team to score next goal;
o Race to a specific number of points;
o Leader after a specific number of minutes in-play;
o Special bets, such as: the top scorer in the season, team performance, furthest progressing team, to qualify/lift.
As you can see, there are more markets available for Gaelic sports than you might think.
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