County colours (Gaelic games)

Fans attending matches often wear replica jerseys, and wave flags and banners in the county colours.

In the build-up to a major match, flags and bunting are flown or hung from cars, buildings, telegraph poles, and other fixtures across the county, especially in those regions where GAA support is strong.

[3] Despite colour telecasts' 1971 arrival,[4] other counties switched from white shorts, such as Dublin's now familiar navy blue.

At that date most inter-county teams still wore the kit of the champion club, but by 1910 some counties had adopted a standard strip.

[5] The 1913 GAA Congress passed a motion proposed by P. D. Mehigan and seconded by Harry Boland, "That a distinctive county colour be compulsory for inter-county, inter-provincial and All-Ireland contests, such colours to be approved of by the Provincial Councils concerned and registered with Central Council.

Typically, flags are formed as vertical bicolours or tricolours, with the major colour nearest the hoist.

There are boards for areas of the Irish diaspora treated as counties within the GAA system.