Jarlath Burns, the President of the GAA, offered a poignant message to the Irish diaspora at the conclusion of the 2024 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final in Dublin. “For those people, who ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With this year’s All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final reaching hundreds of thousands of potential fans across the BBC network, we thought it best to give you an easy-read guide to the ...
DUBLIN HAVE long been one of the dominant teams in Gaelic football, an Irish sport. The men’s side have won nine All-Ireland finals, the sport’s biggest match, since 2011. So when Galway, a county in ...