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What every intercounty GAA jersey would look like if AFCON became an All-Ireland

Published 10:23 21 Jan 2017 GMT

Ben Kiely
What every intercounty GAA jersey would look like if AFCON became an All-Ireland

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There's a lot to like about AFCON, but one of the best parts of every tournament is the wonderful and occasionally wacky jerseys on display.

Unitards, sleeveless shirts... the big daddy of international football competitions on the continent of Africa has seen kits of all shapes and sizes and, as an experiment, we wanted to see how some of these designs would translate over to the Irish national games. Anyone who just wants to see some different incarnations of GAA jerseys can skip past the next couple of paragraphs and go straight to Antrim. The jersey, not the county, but you're already in Antrim that's fine too. Those cats who require some sort of highly implausible story to enjoy a set of photoshops can stick with us. If you have disbelief get ready to suspend and if you have tin foil hats get ready to put them on because we're taking you on a journey. It's the not too distant future and the GAA have successfully brokered a deal to bring their games to AFCON for some reason (we've never claimed to be Philip K. Dick, there will be plot holes aplenty). The only requirement is that they must create new kits for each county based off past ones from any nation that has taken part in qualification for AFCON. Again, the reason is not given. The following is the result of this far-fetched premise. Antrim - Eritrea 2015 Armagh - Ivory Coast 2017 Carlow - DR Congo 2017 Cavan - Nigeria 2014 Clare - Gabon 2015 Cork - South Sudan 2015 Derry - Mali 2017 Donegal - Senegal 2017 Down - Egypt 2017 Dublin  - Togo 2015 Fermanagh - Algeria 2015   Galway - Morocco 2012 Kerry - South Africa 2015 Kildare - Namibia 2014 Kilkenny - Ghana 2015 Laois - Ivory Coast 2015 Leitrim - Uganda 2017 Limerick - Zambia 2014 Longford - Cameroon 2012 Louth - Nigeria 2015 Mayo - Senegal 2015 Meath - Cameroon 2017 Monaghan - Ghana 2017 Offaly - Sierra Leone 2014 Roscommon - Zimbabwe 2017 Sligo - Togo 2012 Tipperary - Sierra Leone 2015   Tyrone - Tunisia 2014 Waterford - Comoros 2016 Westmeath - Angola 2012 Wexford - Rwanda 2015 Wicklow - South Africa 2009