The Irish clearly donât love stick hurling pal.if they did you might be able to sell out more than one game per year and have a proper championship.
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I for one, hope that it doesnât attract too many more fans. We donât need to water down our pure game to appease the EPL / Shoes Off crew.
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The Irish love hurling, pal. Itâs a part of their identity. You wouldnât get it, not being Irish yourself.
Stick hurling is only popular in a handful of counties. The vast majority of Irish people have no interest in it.
Why is this so hard for you to accept?
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33 counties play football and it had an audience for the final last year of just under 1m
10 counties play hurling and the audience for the final was just under 900k.
It says a lot about how poor football is that an additional 23 counties playing only result in an additional 100k viewers.
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The most backward and twee counties in the south of the country too.
What are you on about? The Irish people love hurling and always have. The west Brits are into fisty ballâŚitâs very easy to grasp.
Irish people are event junkies and love big one off events. So even if those figures youâve posted are true they are irrelevant.
Stick hurling has only one serious provincial championship. Itâs nonexistent in most of the country. These are facts.
Utter nonsense. A few Muldoons like it, thatâs it.
So backwards that we were able to topple the Brits with nothing but our hurleys. However, Iâd also remind you that Hurling is king in Antrim.
They are facts. Which reinforces my point about how great a game it must be for just 100k less to tune into the Final when so much of the country donât play it in comparison to football.
I know youâre one of those 100k that just tune into the football so I donât expect you to understand the nuances of why its the greatest game. Itâd be too complicated for your simple EPL / LOI mind.
And even at that its quality has been diluted since Antrim and Galway were admitted into it.
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Typical Brit attitude spitting on the Irish and their culture and calling us Muldoons.
thats a lie mate
the Oirish shinty didnt get that much
I watch the odd game of stick hurling and played it for years for Clanna Gael Fontenoy. Itâs a simple game to play and understand. It might seem like chess to a fat roaster like you that loiters around horse racing stables but its a really uncomplicated game.
Peak audience over 900k
Football final had a peak close to a million with average around 850k
the backtrack begins
it got 643k ,nearly 500k less than a big football game gets
ouch
It canât be denied that Hurling is uniquely Irish.
Hurling is a part of our DNA.
Itâs part of our identity, history and mythical tales.
Football was brought here by the Normans and from the continent⌠itâs an import, like many who support it.
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Dublin club hurling 
sure yee had to bring up ringers from the sticks to teach yee how to play the game in the first place as it was too complicated