Home › Clubs
LGBTQ+-inclusive GAA clubs and the wider Irish queer sports ecosystem. If your club belongs here and isn't listed, let us know and we'll add you.
The small-but-growing number of clubs founded specifically with LGBTQ+ members in mind.
The world's first LGBTQ+ GAA club. Fields men's and ladies football teams in Dublin adult league competition, with a strong beginners stream and a growing hurling-and-camogie interest group.
New to GAA? They're the only club in the country that explicitly budgets training time for never-held-a-hurl beginners. Bring runners and a bottle of water.
Website: nagaeilaeracha.ie · Instagram: @nagaeilaeracha
GAA clubs that have publicly welcomed LGBTQ+ members or have an active equality/welfare programme. This list grows when people write to us. If your club is here and you're a member who wants it removed, say the word.
We're seeding this directory openly. If your club has a welfare officer, a Rainbow Laces training night, an inclusive match report in the newsletter, or just a couple of players who'd be happy to meet a new member for a cup of tea — get in touch and we'll add you.
Email us about your clubThe directory expands by invitation from club members, not by scraping. If a listing is missing it's because nobody has written in about it yet.
Not every queer Gael wants to play on an LGBTQ+-specific team — but a lot of us also play in the broader queer sports community. The federation layer.
The umbrella body for queer sports clubs on the island. Clubs span rugby (Emerald Warriors), football (Dublin Devils), hockey, running, badminton, swimming, and more. The fastest way to find an LGBTQ+-specific sports community of any kind.
Website: sportingpride.ie
Ireland's first openly LGBTQ+-inclusive rugby club. Full training schedule and a long-standing international tours programme. Not GAA — but culturally adjacent, and a place a lot of queer Gaels end up cross-training.
Long-established LGBTQ+ soccer club. Sunday-league team and a very active beginners community. Often a player's first taste of queer-specific team sport before they transition into camogie or GAA.
The links worth bookmarking at the governing-body level.
The central GAA's own resource page: inclusion policy, Rainbow Laces match-day notes, links to the Player Wellbeing Programme, and the pathway for raising a welfare issue at county level.
Free, confidential counselling and mental-health support available through the GAA / GPA to any adult player — inter-county, club, male or female. Not LGBTQ+-specific, but trans- and LGB-competent.
Every county board is meant to have a welfare officer and an equality officer. In practice the personalities vary. If you can't get a useful response from your own, the central GAA's welfare line is your next stop.
If you play at (or run) a club that would like to be listed, or if you're a player who'd be happy to be a first-point-of-contact for a newcomer, drop us a short note. We'll follow up by email within a week.