In three quarters of the country hurling is utterly irrelevant.
The IRB and the 16 rising were run and planned in Limerick ffs. The Dalys of Limerick and Tom Clarke, who married into the family, are the greatest Fenians of the lot.
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doesnt answer my question
you waved the white flag to cromwell mate
You invited him over, mate. And the Normans before him. You spat on the lads in 16 and waved your jacks for every royal visit. Dubs are truely the greatest quislings that this country ever knew.
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Im Fingalian
Even worse.
This coming from a clown who professes to be from Italy, the greatest cowards in the last thousand years. Ethiopia of all places sent ye clowns packing after firing a few spear.
That said, if you landed over they’d laugh their holes off at the spud monchin head on you.
The roman empire was the greatest of them all
Warwickshire
That’s two thousands years ago you mong.
“Mong” disgusting
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The Irish were playing hurling 2000 years ago and unlike the Roman empire, hurling is still going.
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In tipp
there is no Fenian spirit in Ireland pal . By and large we were always pretty subservient to empire . On the odd occasion each generation the Brits neglected due diligence and there was a rising of sorts . In 1922 the Brits felt the backward part of this island wasn’t worth the hassle .
I’m not vilifying hurling at all mate.
It’s not a bad game at all but talk of it being the greatest of all is very snobbish when attendance figures suggest it’s not near that at all.
I hold my hands up. Hurling never did it for me. I’ve been to 2 hurling games in my life. One was when @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy brought me to a double header involving Wexford. Mattie Forde stood on a lads head is the most memorable thing from the day. We went to the bar for most of the hurling.
The other was another double header. Meath beat Mayo before Kilkenny played who I think was Waterford (maybe limerick). Went with the oul lad for admittedly the football. Stayed for 20 minutes of the hurling before we both agreed to head off.
Horses for courses and all that but it’s complete snobbery to say hurling is the greatest sport in the world
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It’s hard to proclaim a sport such as hurling as the greatest on earth when scores are so easily got.
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Only someone who never played the game, or even watched it much, could say that.
You can score points from inside your own half.