Editing Limerick (section)

=== Gaelic games ===
[[File:Sporting Limerick Logo.jpg|thumb|Limerick jersey with Sporting Limerick Logo]]
Ireland's national sports of [[hurling]] and [[Gaelic football]] are widely played in the city and its surrounding suburbs. The [[Limerick county hurling team]] have won five All-Ireland senior hurling championships since 2018 and are [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship records and statistics#General performances|fourth most successful historically]].

[[Na Piarsaigh GAA (Limerick)|Na Piarsaigh]] is the only city club [[2022 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship|currently]] playing hurling at senior level. [[Claughaun GAA|Claughaun]] (Clochán), Monaleen (Móin a'Lín) and Mungret (Mungairit) compete at intermediate level and Old Christians (Sean-Chríostaithe), Milford (Áth an Mhuilinn), Saint Patrick's (Naomh Pádraig) and Abbey Sarsfields (Sáirséalaigh na Mainistreach) compete at junior level.

Limerick won the first [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]] in 1887 when represented by the city's Commercials club and repeated the feat in 1896. Since then, the game has lived mostly in the shadow of hurling but a resurgence in 2000 saw the county win its first Munster Under-21 title and has since reached three Munster Senior finals. Monaleen (Móin a'Lín) is the only city club to play football in the senior grade. Saint Patrick's (Naomh Pádraig), Claughaun (An Clochán), Mungret St. Paul's (Mungairit Naomh Pól) and [[Na Piarsaigh GAA (Limerick)|Na Piarsaigh]] are at intermediate level and Milford (Áth a Mhuilinn), Abbey Sarsfields (Sáirséalaigh na Mainstreach) and Ballinacurra Gaels (Gaeil Bhaile na Cora) play at junior level.

Some secondary school's compete in the [[Dr. Harty Cup]], which is the Munster Colleges Hurling Championship. Limerick CBS has won the cup on 10 occasions, including four in a row from 1964 to 1967 and most recently in 1993. The school also won the [[Dr. Croke Cup]], the All-Ireland Colleges Hurling Championship, on two occasions, in 1964 and 1966. Ardscoil Rís has won the championship on five occasions, in 2010, 2011, 2013,2015, and 2021 and St. Munchin's College won it once, in 1922.

Both the University of Limerick (UL) and Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) have been successful in the [[Fitzgibbon Cup]], the All-Ireland Higher Education Hurling Championship. UL first won the championship in 1989 and has won it four times in all. LIT's two wins came in 2005 and 2007. Both of the colleges met in the final in 2011, with UL scoring an injury-time goal to win.<ref>[http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/gaa/fitzgibbon-cup-live-score-updates-results-friday-25th/ ''UL come from behind to win Fitzgibbon Cup''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716121839/http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/gaa/fitzgibbon-cup-live-score-updates-results-friday-25th/ |date=16 July 2011 }}, Sports News Ireland, 25 February 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.</ref>

Limerick's [[Gaelic Grounds]] (Páirc na nGael), on the Ennis Road, is the county team's home venue for both sports and has a capacity of 49,000 following reconstruction in 2004. In 1961 it hosted Ireland's biggest crowd for a sporting event outside [[Croke Park]] when over 61,000 paid to see the Munster hurling final between Tipperary and Cork.<ref>[http://www.sportsmanager.ie/t66.php?userid=18&contentpage=1&id=382&countyid=18&club_id=&sportid=1 Gaelic Grounds] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721130704/http://www.sportsmanager.ie/t66.php?userid=18&contentpage=1&id=382&countyid=18&club_id=&sportid=1 |date=21 July 2011 }} ''eSports Manager''. Retrieved 8 March 2011.</ref>