it is a complex game requiring practice and a suitable environment . It is sustained by tradition and passion and a sense of place . Unlike PLC chavball it was not driven by cultural imperialism. Unlike fistball it was not a mongrolised version of PLC chavball and rugby .
It is our and reflects what we are. This is a great weekend and Monday should be a bank holiday .
I hope your daughter learns maths better than you do
get the ball hit it as far as you can
not complex
not popular
That’s a clamping.
thats a really disappointing post
No, it’s not.
Dublin beat Wexford in the stick hurling championship this year. Not that it amounts to a hill of beans. So less of your sneering please.
The cultural spawn of the Black and Tans are out for all to see.
Correct. The influence of the roasters is finally having a positive impact on the roasters. However, they were beaten by a Cork team who played most of the game with 1 less player than them so they still have a bit to learn about the game.
hurling as we know it today was set up by brit landlords
The 18th Century is frequently referred to as “The Golden Age of Hurling.” This was when members of the landed gentry kept teams of players on their estates and challenged each other’s teams to matches for the amusement of their tenants.
Would you ever fuck off you clown. The GGA put money into Dublin and a few teams took it seriously for a while and we won the national hurling league and got to the all Ireland semi final without much bother. A team from Westmeath beat the mighty Kilkenny in the under 21 this year .
It doesn’t take much effort to master the game. The problem is most Irish people don’t give a fuck about it.
The Eighteenth Century is frequently referred to as “The Golden Age of Hurling.” Members of the Anglo-Irish landowning gentry often kept teams of players on their estates and challenged each other’s teams to matches for the amusement of their tenants. Tales of colorful hurling matches from this era continue to be collected from modern Irish storytellers and newspapers of the era.[7]
Davin used hurling rules on a British game called football to make it Irish 
Is this the same Antrim that were beaten in the final of the Christy Rackard cup final by that stick hurling powerhouse Meath?
LANDLORD PATRONAGE
A number of factors determined the distribution of the southern game. (Fig. 2) The most important was the patronage of local gentry families, particularly those most closely embedded in the life of the local people. (Table 1) They picked the teams, arranged the hurling greens and supervised the matches, which were frequently organised as gambling events. The southern hurling zone coincides with the area where, in the late medieval period, the Norman and Gaelic worlds fused to produce a vigorous culture, reflected, for example, in the towerhouse as an architectural innovation. It coincides with well-drained, level terrain, seldom moving too far off the dry sod of limestone areas, which also happen to produce the best material for hurls – ash. It is closely linked to the distribution of big farms, where the relatively comfortable lifestyle afforded the leisure to pursue the sport.
Landlord patronage was essential to the well-being of the southern game; once it was removed, the structures it supported crumbled and the game collapsed into shapeless anarchy.
In later centuries the rulers and landowners adopted a more accommodating approach. The landowners actually organised games between teams comprising their tenants. Local rivalries grew and large sums of money were wagered on the outcome. Two forms of the game were noted; a summer game, from which today’s game evolved, and a winter game which resembled hockey this style seems to have lost popularity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Hurling was commonly played in Dublin, the rest of Leinster and Munster. There is some evidence of the game in the north of the country while there also are references to games between parishes in Galway including areas in the north of the county which would now be regarded traditionally as football strongholds
Do you want me to pull up a world of newspaper articles from the time that will contradict that?
Some landlords tried to make it more lawful to stop bloodshed alright, that can’t be denied. But villages continued to defy them and met illegally to play the game their ancestors always had.
Ye have won all Ireland’s in the past . Hurling take skill and hard work but easier win a fistball title with most work done on a track and gym . The GAA have twigged this and better put cash in to Dublin football and load the dice and hey presto Croker is fillable by a population of 1.2 Million a short bus or train ride away .