Over 60 of the best hurlers and camogie players from the different primary schools in Offaly took part recently in the annual ...
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling final was broadcast on BBC2 for the first time ever on Sunday, July 21, opening up Ireland's national sport to thousands of fascinated first-time viewers. The BBC could ...
PROVIDENCE — The fastest game on grass? Not soccer. Not baseball. It’s hurling — with an “h,” a stick-and-ball sport not to be confused with curling, an ice-and-broom sport. Hurling’s history reaches ...
July 16 (Reuters) - More than 82,000 fans will roar themselves hoarse inside Croke Park on Sunday, as tradition and rivalry collide with speed, skill and ferocity when Cork and Tipperary contest the ...
Some sports media who traveled to Ireland for Saturday’s Florida State-Georgia Tech game spent considerable time in the local pubs. Some ended up hurling. You know, hurling, one of the national sports ...
This short film, now available on the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player, revisits a unique hurling match staged at Setanta GAA Club in Ballymun, Dublin. The short film "Hurling: Nihon Gaels vs ...
For centuries, the sport’s wooden sticks have been made from Ireland’s ash trees. But with a disease destroying forests, the ancient game is turning to different materials. By Megan Specia Megan ...
BEFORE THE TURN of the century, underage hurling was practically non-existent in Na Fianna. From 1985 to 2000, they didn’t have the numbers to enter a team into the Dublin minor hurling championship.