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unusual facts about hurling


Hurlingham, Buenos Aires

The word "ham" in Old English meant "house" may have been related to the name referring to "The House of Hurling", an ancient Irish sport.


1966 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 1966 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 79th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1966 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1970 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 1970 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 83rd All-Ireland final and the culmination of the 1970 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1976 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 1976 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 89th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1976 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1977 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 90th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1983–84 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship

The 1983–84 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 14th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, an inter-county knockout competition for Ireland's top championship clubs representing each county.

1984–85 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship

The 1984–85 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 15th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, an inter-county knockout competition for Ireland's top championship clubs representing each county.

1985–86 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship

The 1985–86 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 16th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, an inter-county knockout competition for Ireland's top championship clubs representing each county.

1986 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 1986 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 99th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1986 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1991 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 1991 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 104th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1991 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

British newspaper The Guardian in its editorial section, hailed the 'ancient Irish' game of hurling as a beacon of sporting courage and commitment, Hopefully the Gaelic Athletic Association will do all sports fans everywhere a massive favour and produce DVD copies of this memorable game, where Clare emerged victorious.

2013 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship

The 2013 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship is the 124th staging of the Dublin Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1887.

Banteer

Local sporting organizations include a Gaelic football club known simply as "Lyre" after a nearby village and a hurling club known as Banteer.

Carrigeen

Bob O'Keeffe, after whom the magnificent Lenster senior hurling trophy is named, was a native of Glengrant, Mooncoin.

Conor Counihan

This victory was all the more special as the Cork hurling team had already won their respective All-Ireland title a fortnight earlier.

Coolderry

Coolderry is perhaps best known for being the home of Coolderry GAA, the most successful hurling side in Offaly with 29 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship titles and 1 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship title.

Cooley Mountains

Also the mythological home of Hurling game as told in the Táin Bó Cúailnge, when Setanta traveled through these mountains hitting his sliothar (ball) before him on his way to Emain Macha, this feat is re-enacted every year in the All-Ireland Poc Fada Championship which takes place on Annaverna Mountain.

Dan Coughlan

In 1905, when salmon fishing declined on the River Lee, Coughlan emigrated when still in the prime of his hurling career.

Diarmuid Connolly

Diarmuid Connolly is a Gaelic footballer and hurler with Dublin and St Vincents.

Éire Óg

Éire Óg-Corrachoill CLG, an Irish Gaelic Athletic Association hurling club based in Country Kildare

Eoin Cadogan

Further to this he was charged with the task of marking Joe Canning, one of the hottest properties in hurling.

Erin go Bragh GAA

The team took part in the Sean Walsh Hurling Tournament on 22 October in Carrick-on-Shannon in Leitrim.

Four Roads, Ireland

Four Roads GAA club, founded in 1904, is the most successful hurling club in Roscommon.

George R. Fischer

Fischer soon distinguished himself as the only Caucasian child that was hurling stones at the guards during recess.

Hassan Butt

One of the leading figures in the anti-war movement, the British Muslim activist Anas Altikriti, has strongly criticized Butt, arguing that, "Now that he has changed sides, rather than see the error in the methodology and ideology to which he once subscribed and which he peddled for years, he has adopted the posture of extremist once again - and is hurling abuse once more, albeit from the opposite side."

Jackson McGreevy

Born in Belfast, McGreevy first excelled at hurling whilst at school in St. Mary's CBGS.

Jacskon McGreevy (born 21 April 1994) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for the Antrim senior team.

Lamar Lundy

All four also did some acting; Lundy portrayed the boulder-hurling cyclops in the unaired pilot of Lost in Space (this pilot was later made into episode 4 of the series, entitled "There Were Giants in the Earth").

Modeligo GAA

An under 16 hurling championship in the west of the county was won in 2001, when Naomh Brid beat An Gaeltacht at Bushy Park.

Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship

The Munster Hurling Intermediate Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1961 for the strong hurling teams in the province of Munster in Ireland.

Mycro sports

Hurling players to have endorsed the helmet include Joe Deane, Ben O'Connor, James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick and Ronan Curran (who played a part in designing some of the helmets).

Ned Power

Following Waterford's exit from the 1966 championship, Power retired from inter-county hurling.

Niall McCarthy

The activities of the Cork footballers and their reaction to the appointment of Teddy Holland as their new manager impacted greatly on the preparations of the Cork hurling team.

Nicky Rackard

Born in Killane, County Wexford, Rackard first excelled at hurling whilst at school in St. Kieran's College.

Nicholas "Nicky" Rackard (28 April 1922 – 10 April 1976) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a full-forward for the Wexford senior teams.

O'Rorke

Barry O'Rorke (born 1989), Irish Gaelic football and hurling player

Paul Kinnerk

Born in Monaleen, County Limerick, Kinnerk first excelled at hurling whilst at school in Ardscoil Rís.

Rockies

The Rockies, Cork, Ireland, the nickname of Blackrock National Hurling Club, an historic sports team in Cork, Ireland

Séamus Ó Braonáin

He played hurling and football with Keatings and won four All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals with Dublin in 1902, 1906, 1907 and 1908, five Leinster medals, two Dublin championships and one Dublin senior league.

Sheedy

Liam Sheedy (born 1969), Irish hurling manager and former player

Singapore Polo Club

The grass, which is natural grass with enhanced artificial roots is ideal for Polo, Gaelic Football and Hurling, as well as the other sports played there.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

Thomastown

Monsignor Tommy Maher played hurling with the local club Thomastown and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1940s and coached Kilkenny to seven senior All-Ireland titles between 1957 and 1978.

Tony Considine

The Clare senior hurling team endured a poor 2007 failing to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Allianz National Hurling League.

Uihlein Soccer Park

Uihlein Soccer Park has also been used for Lacrosse tournaments (Hot 4 Lax), Ultimate Frisbee games (Milwaukee Ultimate), and Hurling matches (Milwaukee Hurling Club).

Wild Geese GAA

In Los Angeles there is a Gaelic football club who also go by the same name and at Lakenheath U.S. air force base there is a hurling club also called Wild Geese.


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