How old is gaelic football?
One of the first written mentions known is from 1308, when John McCrocan, a spectator at a football game in Dublin, was charged with accidentally stabbing a player named William Bernard., but it would have evolved from sports played in Europe in the Middle Ages that would also have led to games like soccer, rugby, Australian Rules Football and American Football.
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