I know cork were saffron and sky blue up untill 1919 I think...

Sligo recently went from white and black shirts to all black strip?

Any others?

How did alot of counties get their colours in the first place?

Why is their no Red and Yellow county or red and blue?

BigJohn.6_8 (Galway) - Posts: 704 - 01/12/2009 12:21:55    499310

We wore stripes in 2005, Does that count?

JuanVeron (Westmeath) - Posts: 1866 - 01/12/2009 12:58:58    499365

dublin changed from blue and white to blue and navy.
fermanagh at one stage were green and red.
armagh i think wore the crossmaglen colours-black and amber.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 01/12/2009 13:14:33    499376

Armagh were originally yellow and black, like Kilkenny

jimmyjoebob (Armagh) - Posts: 137 - 01/12/2009 13:21:25    499385

Why is there no red and blue?

Go figure

Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1403 - 01/12/2009 13:22:46    499386

Armagh used to wear the black and amber like Crossmaglen and Kilkenny.

Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 01/12/2009 13:25:41    499389

Donegal used to wear a jersey similar to Kerry up until 1992. Dublin used to wear a dark blue jersey , similar to Cavan until the jerseys were left in the wash too long and faded. Hence the reason we now have the light blue jersey. Dublin also wore white shorts up until the early 70's. Indeed the Dublin minor teams used to still wear the white shorts when playing in Leinster until the early 1980's.

dubupnorth (Dublin) - Posts: 1897 - 01/12/2009 13:41:53    499407

are derry white with red trim or red with white trim? they seem to change sporadically during the year

puddin (Westmeath) - Posts: 46 - 01/12/2009 14:31:58    499459

White with red band is the traditional way , although they wear the opposite quite regularly in the case of of possible colour clashes.

dubupnorth (Dublin) - Posts: 1897 - 01/12/2009 15:15:37    499494

I was told and maybe Patrique can clarify that Antrim had green and white hoops before ?

anscadanglic (Wicklow) - Posts: 64 - 01/12/2009 16:01:15    499542

mayo went yellow in 04 and 06

redandgreen (None) - Posts: 691 - 01/12/2009 16:02:38    499544

I like the red and white jersey better compared to the white and red one. I keep messing up my white one :(

Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 01/12/2009 16:12:41    499554

Tyrone and Kildare wear brown geansais when it is raining and muddy. Moortown wear blood red shirts when playing Ardboe.

CheFinny (UK) - Posts: 1358 - 01/12/2009 16:14:07    499556

BigJohn.6_8
County: Galway
Posts: 85

How did alot of counties get their colours in the first place?


I believe Limerick took there's from Lucan Sarsfields. I might read that here somewhere!

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13796 - 01/12/2009 16:22:14    499567

Red with a white band is derrys traditional colours but its changed in more recent times.
I prefer the white with a red band to be honest

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 01/12/2009 16:59:55    499616

According to the Galway GAA website.

In 1934 Galway brought "Sam" West for the first time. In the final Galway wore maroon and white jerseys for the first time, a colour combination destined to become famous in the years to come.


Not sure what colours were worn before that although Galway have sometimes played in white down through the years.

Marooned (Galway) - Posts: 2382 - 01/12/2009 17:23:04    499665

Fermanagh wore red and green in 1982, but i think that was the only time... They got to an ulster final that year too...

southferm (Fermanagh) - Posts: 93 - 01/12/2009 17:34:05    499685

Fermangh were green and red once upon a time.

Armagh took up the orange I believe when Louth's jerseys came out in the wrong colour and they gave them to their lovely neighbours.

datsrite (Sligo) - Posts: 473 - 01/12/2009 17:34:26    499687

When Clare won the All-Ireland in 1914 their jersey was white with a green sash.

barrnasraide (Carlow) - Posts: 49 - 01/12/2009 18:13:31    499725

Every county would have had to change there colour's due to the fact the club champion's would have had to represent the county


So in that case,Wexford's colour's the time we won the 4 in a row would have been black & white and the colour before that would have been whatever colour's Castlebride had

Duffy89 (Wexford) - Posts: 3320 - 01/12/2009 18:46:27    499780