Hurling is regarded as one of the fastest ball-games in the world – and to the uninitiated a first encounter may also beckon forth the attributes “chaotic” and “brutal”. Sometimes hurling is confused with hockey. This confusion only lasts until one realizes that charging players occasionally wield their hurleys like lethal weapons of messy destruction. Quite within the rules in most cases. Find out more about hurling and camogie (that is hurling in skirts) and the basic rules in my short introduction to this Irish sport.
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Sun, Sep 5, 2010
Ireland