Transcript from The Grand GAA Lodge of Ireland
"A GAA man should have a sincere love and veneration for his Heavenly President;
a humble and steadfast faith in his County Board, the Saviours of GAA-kind,
believing in them as the only Mediator between Head-Office and man.
He should cultivate truth and justice, brotherly kindness and charity, devotion and piety,
concord and unity, and obedience to the laws;
his deportment should be gentle and compassionate, kind and courteous; he should seek a
society of the virtuous, and avoid that of the evil; he should honour and diligently study
the rulebook, and make them the rule of his faith and practice;
he should love, uphold, and defend the Gaelic Athletic Association,
and sincerely desire and endeavour to propagate its doctrines and precepts; he should
strenuously oppose the fatal errors and doctrines of the FAI, and scrupulously avoid
countenancing (by his presence or otherwise) any act of ceremony of soccer worship;
he should by all lawful means, resist the ascendancy of that Association, its
encroachments, and the extension of its power, ever abstaining from all uncharitable words,
actions or sentiments, towards his FAI supporting brethren; he should remember to keep holy
the Sabbath day, and attend the public displays of GAA, and diligently train
up his offspring, and all under his control, in the fear of God, and in the GAA faith; he
should never take the name of the GAA in vain, but abstain from all cursing and profane
language, and use every opportunity of discouraging these,
and all other sinful practices, in others; his conduct should be guided by
wisdom and prudence, and marked by honesty, temperance, and sobriety; the glory of GAA and
the welfare of man, the honour of his Sovereign, and the good of his country, should be the
motive of his actions."
Candidates must be proposed by a member of a club (under law 84) and promise among other
things to:
At all times conform to the Laws and Ordinances of the Loyal GAA Institution of Ireland,
and will at all times recognise and support the authority of the Grand GAA Lodge of
Ireland.
I promise that, if admitted a member of this Lodge, I will always show due
respect to the County Board Chairman and other Officers, and will endeavour to conduct
myself as a Brother ought towards all members of the Lodge and of the
Brotherhood, and that I will always observe and never knowingly violate, the
By-Laws of the Lodge.

I was born at ................... in the county of ......................of to
GAA parents, was educated in the GAA faith, and have never been in any way connected with
the FAI.

My wife is a camoige player/makes sandwiches for the u-12's/I am unmarried.

Any similarity between Oaths - existing or non-existing - is entirely intentional.