I'm from Canada and I'm in my 50's. I remember when I was young they used to show The Hurling Championship on CBC ( Canada's BBC) once a year. My older brother and I waited all year for it. The second I started watching it I fell in love with it ! What a great game!! These were the days before computers so I can only watch it when they would show it on TV. I Love the roughness of it. It reminds me of Hockey. Way to go Ireland ! We invented the greatest Winter game (Hockey) and you invented the greatest summer game (Hurling)! This Canadian will always be a fan !! Cheers !
They used to show it once a year when they showed the gaelic games.tsn and sportsnet dont seem to do that any more.you can download a free thing called HOLA,it will let you watch things broadcast in ireland and then you can watch live hurling sundays on tg4 and rts.i watch a lot of camogie live on youtube on saturdays.they show a good bit of live hurling on youtube now .not gaa but its still fun to watch.
Also,every major city across canada has a gaelic sports club and most of them have hurling and camogie teams that broqdcast someof their games live on their web pages.Canada has a national camogie team !
dragondaze try it dude in any other sport they are genuinely in this game for the love of it no millions needed just gratitude for what is a great game
Sling shot, No doubt about the love for the game. It's unlike basketball where they feel they deserve a ton of money to half heartedly complete a game!
dont know if id say they dont get paid ...... so much compensation for the top teams its like a wage...... not that they dont deserve it.... just wish they would stop fucking around... i recon the rugby approach could work ......
I've been training kickboxing for more than 10 years in a few different countries, Ireland, Holland and Poland even some amatuer fights, my brother is a lifelong hurler, He is far tougher than me
As an American, one thing I loved about being in Ireland and watching hurling was how when a brawl breaks out the players don't toss their sticks away like in hockey, they go straight into the row with them in-hand. I played some pick-up games with the local lads on the common after watching them for a while, and while I think they went easy on me--which I very much appreciated--I'm pleased to say I gave a decent account of myself, and went home with all my teeth. Hurling is the perfect game for a former baseball center fielder, and American football slot receiver.
I miss it too. Used to live in Dublin and see the finals and other games at Croke Park every year. Then I moved to Canada. Here they think Hockey is the toughest sport, but they have no clue.
Boring just playing each other beating another country now's that's the pinnacle of sports no one cares about hurling outside Ireland no one cares about Aussie rules outside Australia and no one cares about NFL outside America what do they all have in common?,no one plays or cares about them outside those countries
@@Trajan2401 it's played in the US and UK practically all over the world just like rugby is and nfl there's nfl teams in ireland rugby is growing in popularity in the US so you can't say no one cares or its only played in one country when that's shite talk
My Dad took me to watch my first game in Birmingham when I was about 12, he said to watch how it's played, and he'd get me a game with a youth team. In the first half hour one man had his arm broken, and one lost half of his teeth, I told him I'd give it a miss thanks. Seriously tough guys.
Hurling is the Oldest and Fastest Field Game in the World..The game of Hurling has prehistoric origins and has been played in Ireland for at least 3,000 years in Ireland.In historical texts, the earliest reference to hurling appears to have been made about 1272 BC at the battle of Moytura, near Cong in County Mayo. The Firbolgs were rulers of Ireland and were protecting their place in a battle against the Tuatha de Danaan. While preparing for battle, the Firbolgs challenged the invaders to a hurling contest in which teams of 27-a-side took part. The Firbolgs won the contest but lost the battle. Even the legal system of the time, the Brehon Laws, took account of the existence and popularity of hurling. There are many references to the game of hurling in the centuries before the birth of Christ. There is evidence that hurling was an essential part of life for young men preparing to be warriors. This gives rise to some of the legends of early Irish history which are still being taught to schoolchildren. The most famous warrior of all was Cuchulainn who, as the boy Setanta, engaged in great deeds of hurling. The legend is based on the period of the birth of Christ and is contained in early writings, including what is known as the Book of Leinster.
aughalough1 Connor Mac Nessa,the King of Ulster and one of Setanta's foster fathers ,has been invited to a feast at the home of Cullen the smith.He stops to watch boys playing a game of hurling .He is impressed by how Setanta plays and invites him to the feast.Setanta had to finish the game but says he will be along later.Connor arrives at Cullen's house but forgets about Setanta.Cullen closes his gates having released his fierce guard dog outside. Presently Setanta arrives to see a huge slavering,glowering ,growling hound barring his way ,eyes red with anger ,spittle dripping from his fangs,ready to pounce.Setanta sees the dog's attack ,picks up his hurley and with a mighty belt drives his sliotar straight down the howling dog's throat. The mighty hound drops dead at Setanta's feet.Startled by the commotion the people inside emerge,to see the boy and the dead monstrous hound.Cullen is bereft and has lost the means to defend his family and his compound. Then the young Setanta steps forward and says ,"Cullen ,it is I that has killed your hound and left you defenceless.Until an equal guard dog is found ,and reared and trained,I shall be your hound, guarding you and yours". Thus it was that the boy Setanta became known as Cú Chulainn-the Hound of Cullen.
@@frankstein7631 Correct and right. And these Irish Hounds, especially the wolfhounds, were later sold into the Roman Empire as hunting and fighting dogs. When the boy who later became St. Patrick - son of a Roman officer by some accounts - escaped from slavery in Ireland he did so in a boat carrying wolfhounds to Roman Britain.
Is this an American made video...? Helmets are mandatory since 2010. Croker is not the home of hurling. It's just a stadium that suffered a horrible day but critical turning point in our independence which is why it is an all Gaelic sport stadium. Making a video with bloody pictures is not a good way to value this sport. Fighting and blood happens in all sport. Hurling is a rough game but not a violent one.
Its an all gaelic stadium because it was owned by the GAA and built and designed with gaelic sport in mind.Rule 42 was actually brought in after the ban was abolished as a compromise to get supporters of the ban to vote for its abolition. Bloody sunday would have hardened attitudes towards garrison games.but on its own its not the reason that croke park was not open to garrison sports.The ban do not specifically baninng garrison sports from being played in croker it did prevent those games being played there and it came into force long before bloody sunday
@ Len that's a bit unfair as we in Ireland treasured it for centuries, but it has been embraced elsewhere as it's discovered and promoted [US , Australia, UK, Canada and parts of Europe} - Granted we are the best at tough!!
More people would play if if more people heard about it but the fn gaa are too tight to let any of it be broadcast for free.they havent made a deal with any north american sports networks.even so,every manor city innCanada has a gaelic sports club and they have hurling and camogie.its taking off at universities across canada too.we still have to import hurlies etc from ireland and we cant see any games live unless we pay 10-20 bucks per game. No one in ireland streams the games on redditt or anything either so it not that no one wants to play it ,they just havent ever heard of it .the gaa is keeping it a secret irish thing .probably afraid of other countries being better at it than they are .
So proud this is our national sport,many a Saturday morning in the freezing cold training for my local club,,getting a belt of a sliotar is a great way to toughen up.
At the end of the day, it’s our game, it’s a unique game, both of them, and you forget about fighting, you shake hands and move on. There’s lots of great teams and lots of passionate players. Irish people should look out for each other.
Doubtful if it was the greatest ever.bubbles goal against Galway was pure class.i would have to say John fentons goal against limerick was the greatest ever.
Just showed this to my American half of the family and they were like holy shit its brutal. He recalled a sport of football from Australia and I had explaine that that's based on Gaelic football. However I'll give the Aussies that one, Aussie rules is brutal too.
Hurling is an extremely disciplined sport with a strict rule book and a code of honor that striking an opponent with your Hurley is cowardly . It's a though sport and injuries happen alot, from my own view I've had 10 operations due to hurling injuries. Just to note a lot of the fighting here resulted in straight red cards, even pulling off the helmet is a straight red card. Most of these clips are spread over 40 years as well..
hockey evolved from hurling on a pond in nova scotia. theres a great doc called Poc na nGael/Puck of the Irish. its streaming free on TG4. if you are Canadian youll dig all the history of Canada and video clips.youll need to turn on the closed captions unless yer billingual ,half of it is in gaelic.
@CJ Monk here mate heres the link.tell me what you think after watching it.it wasnt the indians it was the irish.www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=5687568899001&series=Poc%20na%20nGael&genre=Faisneis
The Scots have a version of hurling called Shinty. There are frequent matches between Ireland and Scotland, at least there used to be. Hurling vs Shinty. The Irish usually win. I must say, looking at these Hurling lads, I would not like to pick a fight with any of them.
RobRoyBoaz I just mean at the start of the video its says "no other country will play" and scotland do play against ireland in it. Also the hurling stick is much better at controlling the ball than shinty sticks are, therefore ireland tend to win the shinty vs. hurling matches.
I’ve never seen hurling before. I’m thoroughly impressed with it. I’ve played lacrosse my whole life. I’d love to give this a go. I’d prolly suck ass but why not. Some really good skill running with the ball balanced in the bat and all. I also thought I was nasty and mean as an attackman. Some of these hits make lacrosse seem soft, an all ash bat to get clubbed with? I love the Irish. Nuts.
Lacrosse skills transfer over to hurling pretty well. I played lacrosse in high school and then found hurling when I turned 30 (hon the Denver Gaels!). It's quickly become my new favorite sport, it's so much fun to play. It definitely feels weird at first and there's a bit of a learning curve, but after a year or so of playing you start to get the basic skills down. You can't whack players with the hurl on purpose like you can with a lacrosse stick, but incidental smacks do happen and it hurts like hell. You learn pretty quickly to protect your hand when jumping up to catch a 50-50 puck out.
Who ever said Ice hockey is like hurling needs to come to ireland and see what the sport is all about it's not just a game it's like clan wars it's a matter of pride and the whole county is behind every player on the field and when they play hard work hard and train hard that's when they have the hearts of the whole country behind them something no ice skating ballerina could ever get
Romanticizing the blood and "violence" of the sport is a great disservice. It is rough, but serious injuries are rare. It's the greatest sport yet devised by man for so many other reasons.
No its not played in wild mountainy areas at all infact the characteristic hurling areas are lush farmland and some cities.Its a sport if you don't start as soon as you can walk ,forget about there have been notable exceptions,but generally if its not in the DNA of a particular area you won't survive you need to be proficient in over 100 distinct skills some guy
@@thedarquibus Not in any of the schools i went to sligo anyway.There was hurling in my town at the time,but we have no hurling at the moment infact even football is only holding on.Soccer would be stronger.Like elsewhere in rural ireland its hard to put out a team even without competition from other sports due to lack of jobs
Most Irish people, despite their protestations to the contrary are actually heavily invested in britishness, and only about a 1/4 of the country plays and follows this game. Soccer and the English premier league are more popular, which is a shame as hurling is an amazing game that the Irish should be proud of.
Perhaps he was a young man when it happened and the nephew is now a grown man, perhaps older now then the guy who was killed. Hurling is a young guys game. There is a trophy named after a school kid killed playing it where I went to school.
remember watching this on the TV in the late 60 on wide world of sports. the game was fun but some guy broke his leg and he was laying on the ground for a long time . with the game continues all around him for many minutes. My Irish grandparents told me about the game .the only thing nice i ever heard them say about Ireland. Growing up hungry they hated Ireland. grandmother has the saddest story about having one shoe and switching feet. trying to stay warm . God bless the USA. brave people who gave me a better life .and fuck the English
I’m proud to have family who played for cork, kilkenny and tip. Both senior and minor. But I’m most proud to be the first woman in the history of my family to play. Not minor or senior actually I’m too young. But hopefully some day! These people are skilled and deserve the worlds praise!
Years ago a busload of pub regulars on Long Island took a ride to Gaelic Park in Bronx NY. We were led by our friend the late-great Kilkenny hurler Mike O' Rourke . It was like walking in Yankee Stadium with Babe Ruth, EVERYONE knew Mike. It was only then we realized how great Mike must have been in his younger years.. Tough sport, don't know if I could handle it.
Paul Mulhere, the 25-year-old Dublin hurler, was last night stated to be still critical at St Vincent's Hospital after suffering a serious head injury during last Sunday's Division One National Hurling League victory by Dublin over Laois. - The Cork Examiner, Wednesday November 6, 1985 That was copied and pasted from the Irish independent
Catch a glimpse of hockey! No soft grass, just solid ice. Razors on the feet causing sliced throats. Pucks travel in Excess of 108 miles per hour. Body checks occur at 20 miles per hour... this is just aggresive lacrosse
I'm wing back and play county under 14. I've only broken my wrist once in it and have been sent of 7 times for fighting. You are probably not a player molly xox and if you are you would play camogie or ladies football which are both non contact sports.
If American football players played it they would destroy any team they played against. Besides the fact that these two sports aren't even close in comparison.
As an Irish person this makes hurling look a lot rougher than it is we wear helmets to protects our head we do get injuries but it's not like it happens every time we play hurling
I'm from Canada and I'm in my 50's. I remember when I was young they used to show The Hurling Championship on CBC ( Canada's BBC) once a year. My older brother and I waited all year for it. The second I started watching it I fell in love with it !
What a great game!! These were the days before computers so I can only watch it when they would show it on TV.
I Love the roughness of it. It reminds me of Hockey.
Way to go Ireland ! We invented the greatest Winter game (Hockey) and you invented the greatest summer game (Hurling)!
This Canadian will always be a fan !!
Cheers !
That’s your opinion on the greatest summer game
Ice hockey is spawned from shinty.
@CJ Monk actually no it wasnt .the indians didnt invent lacrosse either.
They used to show it once a year when they showed the gaelic games.tsn and sportsnet dont seem to do that any more.you can download a free thing called HOLA,it will let you watch things broadcast in ireland and then you can watch live hurling sundays on tg4 and rts.i watch a lot of camogie live on youtube on saturdays.they show a good bit of live hurling on youtube now .not gaa but its still fun to watch.
Also,every major city across canada has a gaelic sports club and most of them have hurling and camogie teams that broqdcast someof their games live on their web pages.Canada has a national camogie team !
Remember these lads are all amateurs. All playing for free, no pay. Just playing for the love of the sport
dragondaze try it dude in any other sport they are genuinely in this game for the love of it no millions needed just gratitude for what is a great game
Sling shot, No doubt about the love for the game. It's unlike basketball where they feel they deserve a ton of money to half heartedly complete a game!
dont know if id say they dont get paid ...... so much compensation for the top teams its like a wage...... not that they dont deserve it.... just wish they would stop fucking around... i recon the rugby approach could work ......
For county**
So what if theyre playing for free they carry their whole county In hurling and football(Gaelic) 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Incredible, these guys have fast reflexes and look tough as nails.
Much respect to Ireland!
@Bruce Hood Right back at you Bro
From my experience playing its a tought sport
I've been training kickboxing for more than 10 years in a few different countries, Ireland, Holland and Poland even some amatuer fights, my brother is a lifelong hurler, He is far tougher than me
Oppressed nations always have a certain toughness in their DNA, The Irish and Mexicans are two prime examples
Respect Mexico 🇲🇽 🇮🇪
North England as well
So happy and proud to live in Ireland and to have our own sport one of the best in world ❤️🇮🇪
becky ryan.........................best in the universe.
Barbara Hallinan thank you so much xx
It’s not rated here in Wales never even heard of it
Riley Doggett ok good for you
Ryan dogget. What part of England is Wales in?Never heard of it
As an American, one thing I loved about being in Ireland and watching hurling was how when a brawl breaks out the players don't toss their sticks away like in hockey, they go straight into the row with them in-hand. I played some pick-up games with the local lads on the common after watching them for a while, and while I think they went easy on me--which I very much appreciated--I'm pleased to say I gave a decent account of myself, and went home with all my teeth. Hurling is the perfect game for a former baseball center fielder, and American football slot receiver.
I miss it too. Used to live in Dublin and see the finals and other games at Croke Park every year. Then I moved to Canada. Here they think Hockey is the toughest sport, but they have no clue.
Their sticks.
@@BTDboy_official lol
Left a reply and It DISAPPEARED??!!!!!!!
This makes me so damn proud to be born and live in Ireland this is why we are the fighting Irish
Same
They're only fighting each other.
u would have to be a very hard man to play this sport ...wow from australia
Boring just playing each other beating another country now's that's the pinnacle of sports no one cares about hurling outside Ireland no one cares about Aussie rules outside Australia and no one cares about NFL outside America what do they all have in common?,no one plays or cares about them outside those countries
@@Trajan2401 it's played in the US and UK practically all over the world just like rugby is and nfl there's nfl teams in ireland rugby is growing in popularity in the US so you can't say no one cares or its only played in one country when that's shite talk
My Dad took me to watch my first game in Birmingham when I was about 12, he said to watch how it's played, and he'd get me a game with a youth team. In the first half hour one man had his arm broken, and one lost half of his teeth, I told him I'd give it a miss thanks. Seriously tough guys.
Not really if you play it
Yeah normally all ya get are about 5-10 brushes maybe a mark or a cut nothing serious
@@caoimhebutler821 exactly
now you know why England could never tame the Irish.. just too damn tough and crazy
Lol they did
Cheers lad
I love hurling Irish rule
@@paw1ak_248 I bet your English
David Byrnes they dint tame us. They just basically started to feel sorry for us and fucked back over to England
Music makes it unwatchable ....dosent fit action.
Mute it then u spud
James Fleming 🤣
Agree about the music and I did mute it with the first song.
ronin maya ya cause they have 2 songs playing over each other.
All the scum using sticks in a fight are cowardly scum. Embarrassing.
Hurling is the Oldest and Fastest Field Game in the World..The game of Hurling has prehistoric origins and has been played in Ireland for at least 3,000 years in Ireland.In historical texts, the earliest reference to hurling appears to have been made about 1272 BC at the battle of Moytura, near Cong in County Mayo. The Firbolgs were rulers of Ireland and were protecting their place in a battle against the Tuatha de Danaan. While preparing for battle, the Firbolgs challenged the invaders to a hurling contest in which teams of 27-a-side took part. The Firbolgs won the contest but lost the battle. Even the legal system of the time, the Brehon Laws, took account of the existence and popularity of hurling. There are many references to the game of hurling in the centuries before the birth of Christ. There is evidence that hurling was an essential part of life for young men preparing to be warriors. This gives rise to some of the legends of early Irish history which are still being taught to schoolchildren. The most famous warrior of all was Cuchulainn who, as the boy Setanta, engaged in great deeds of hurling. The legend is based on the period of the birth of Christ and is contained in early writings, including what is known as the Book of Leinster.
aughalough1
Connor Mac Nessa,the King of Ulster and one of Setanta's foster fathers ,has been invited to a feast at the home of Cullen the smith.He stops to watch boys playing a game of hurling .He is impressed by how Setanta plays and invites him to the feast.Setanta had to finish the game but says he will be along later.Connor arrives at Cullen's house but forgets about Setanta.Cullen closes his gates having released his fierce guard dog outside.
Presently Setanta arrives to see a huge slavering,glowering ,growling hound barring his way ,eyes red with anger ,spittle dripping from his fangs,ready to pounce.Setanta sees the dog's attack ,picks up his hurley and with a mighty belt drives his sliotar straight down the howling dog's throat.
The mighty hound drops dead at Setanta's feet.Startled by the commotion the people inside emerge,to see the boy and the dead monstrous hound.Cullen is bereft and has lost the means to defend his family and his compound.
Then the young Setanta steps forward and says ,"Cullen ,it is I that has killed your hound and left you defenceless.Until an equal guard dog is found ,and reared and trained,I shall be your hound, guarding you and yours".
Thus it was that the boy Setanta became known as Cú Chulainn-the Hound of Cullen.
@@frankstein7631
Correct and right.
And these Irish Hounds, especially the wolfhounds, were later sold into the Roman Empire as hunting and fighting dogs.
When the boy who later became St. Patrick - son of a Roman officer by some accounts - escaped from slavery in Ireland he did so in a boat carrying wolfhounds to Roman Britain.
By jee, that's some reply,, you fairly know you're stuff,,
Sean mccúl played hurling and setanta
Is this an American made video...? Helmets are mandatory since 2010. Croker is not the home of hurling. It's just a stadium that suffered a horrible day but critical turning point in our independence which is why it is an all Gaelic sport stadium.
Making a video with bloody pictures is not a good way to value this sport. Fighting and blood happens in all sport. Hurling is a rough game but not a violent one.
Its an all gaelic stadium because it was owned by the GAA and built and designed with gaelic sport in mind.Rule 42 was actually brought in after the ban was abolished as a compromise to get supporters of the ban to vote for its abolition.
Bloody sunday would have hardened attitudes towards garrison games.but on its own its not the reason that croke park was not open to garrison sports.The ban do not specifically baninng garrison sports from being played in croker it did prevent those games being played there and it came into force long before bloody sunday
clay fada didn't know that it was well before Bloody Sunday I just thought it was a stadium like any other at the time...
It would have actually only have been 7 years old at the time of the massacre on bloody sunday. max
"Best fights"
Max Lacarin The spiritual home of hurling is probably Thurles, I suppose.
A fantastic sport that the rest of the world are too scared to play.
@ Len that's a bit unfair as we in Ireland treasured it for centuries, but it has been embraced elsewhere as it's discovered and promoted [US , Australia, UK, Canada and parts of Europe} - Granted we are the best at tough!!
Australia would have you covered
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@@seankeen3579 cap
More people would play if if more people heard about it but the fn gaa are too tight to let any of it be broadcast for free.they havent made a deal with any north american sports networks.even so,every manor city innCanada has a gaelic sports club and they have hurling and camogie.its taking off at universities across canada too.we still have to import hurlies etc from ireland and we cant see any games live unless we pay 10-20 bucks per game. No one in ireland streams the games on redditt or anything either so it not that no one wants to play it ,they just havent ever heard of it .the gaa is keeping it a secret irish thing .probably afraid of other countries being better at it than they are .
Tipp is the home of hurling!!
Yeah and the home of the one in a row team
@@Jack-rn2ut who cares once the trash the Cats...again 🤣🤣🤣 🇺🇦
Awesome. I'm crying. Great job.
So proud this is our national sport,many a Saturday morning in the freezing cold training for my local club,,getting a belt of a sliotar is a great way to toughen up.
Ross Egan most painful thing ever
I’d like to see a soccer player get a belt they would probably roll around crying
donnacha Doyle that’s them out for the next 9 months anyways
Its not the national sport ...... handball is , funny that
Helmets were made compulsory in like 2011 I think. Also Semple Stadium, Thurles is considered the home of hurling. Other than that carry on 👍
Aidan Leahy no 2009
2010 😂😂
Il
Get some supermax while im there
Semple Stadium isn't the home hurling, but it is the field of legends
At the end of the day, it’s our game, it’s a unique game, both of them, and you forget about fighting, you shake hands and move on. There’s lots of great teams and lots of passionate players. Irish people should look out for each other.
What an epic game. Hurling is badass
That's just Badass!! Luv it!!
Good stuff,keep it coming love from Australia
At 1 minute 59 seconds , pause, roll back and watch again. John Troy , Offally, with one of the finest pieces of skill ever.
Doubtful if it was the greatest ever.bubbles goal against Galway was pure class.i would have to say John fentons goal against limerick was the greatest ever.
I remember catching a game at around 4:00 in the morning on ESPN 2 years ago, I was highly impressed.
I love the sad music at the start. Keep the good work up!. Maith thu.
6:31 "Oh sorry - wrong ball" !
Lol
Only in offaly
Wide World of Sports showed a game in the late 60s with Jim McKay , I’m glad they put on helmets!!! WOW!
This must be the most badass sport in the universe . lucky to know about the sport....Hey, Irish... You won my respect 👍👍👍
You could agree that Thurles is probably the (spiritual) home of hurling. And that's coming from a Cork man.
True. But a Corkman will always prefer someone from Tipp rather than Dub.
And a Munster final is not a Munster final without cork and tipp.
PINTS IN HAYSES HOTEL.
I agree and that’s coming from a Waterford man
aaron nah Croker isn’t the home of hurlin no way
Just showed this to my American half of the family and they were like holy shit its brutal. He recalled a sport of football from Australia and I had explaine that that's based on Gaelic football. However I'll give the Aussies that one, Aussie rules is brutal too.
My old Irish nan from Newry used to play this game ..crazy!
Great job 👍🏻 thanks.
Hurling is an extremely disciplined sport with a strict rule book and a code of honor that striking an opponent with your Hurley is cowardly . It's a though sport and injuries happen alot, from my own view I've had 10 operations due to hurling injuries.
Just to note a lot of the fighting here resulted in straight red cards, even pulling off the helmet is a straight red card. Most of these clips are spread over 40 years as well..
The Irish are so tough I swear.
Zestie Lemons not wrong there boi
Zestie Lemons is this the impression ye get of us in the video . Sure it is rough but it isnt a free for all . There are proper rules to the game
Zestie Lemons at 2:42 that was a fair tackle as they met shoulder to shoulder and the green lad went for the red lad and got what he deserved
Zestie Lemons True but it's not as bad as depicted in the video most of the time.
Its Doylers True, but it was still a hard tackle that he had to take lol.
Don’t really know how the game is played but it reminds me of old time hockey!
Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Good man from Ireland county limerick
hockey evolved from hurling on a pond in nova scotia. theres a great doc called Poc na nGael/Puck of the Irish. its streaming free on TG4. if you are Canadian youll dig all the history of Canada and video clips.youll need to turn on the closed captions unless yer billingual ,half of it is in gaelic.
@CJ Monk maybe you should watch pok na ngael on tg4 if you want to learn the history of hurling,hockey and Canada.it will be very informative for you.
@CJ Monk here mate heres the link.tell me what you think after watching it.it wasnt the indians it was the irish.www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=5687568899001&series=Poc%20na%20nGael&genre=Faisneis
@CJ Monk youll need to turn the captions on its partly in gaelic but the rest is all english.
I love hurlin it brings my confidence up
My little 6 year old boy plays in Waterford, Ireland for Ballygunner GAA and we are South Africans. He loves it.
Thurles Co Tipperary is the correct home of hurling. The GAA was invented there.
The Scots have a version of hurling called Shinty. There are frequent matches between Ireland and Scotland, at least there used to be. Hurling vs Shinty. The Irish usually win. I must say, looking at these Hurling lads, I would not like to pick a fight with any of them.
RobRoyBoaz yeah I remember my dad going to Scotland to play agent you guys ,,,it's both out heritage mate cherish it my friend
Cheers mate. All the best to the Irish brothers. Éire agus Albain go deo
I legit just left a comment about this coz it says no other country would play it. Scotland lose ciz the equipment is hugely in irelands favour
What do you mean, Daniel ? Please explain.
RobRoyBoaz I just mean at the start of the video its says "no other country will play" and scotland do play against ireland in it. Also the hurling stick is much better at controlling the ball than shinty sticks are, therefore ireland tend to win the shinty vs. hurling matches.
Love the last image! The man takes a full hurling stick to the face and keeps his eye on the ball!
Could have kept both on the ball if the other one hadn’t just been bashed out his head😳
I've been to Croke park, Loved Hurling. Gaelic football I can pass on, but Hurling is brilliant.
Thurles is the home of hurling
Yep
I’ve never seen hurling before. I’m thoroughly impressed with it. I’ve played lacrosse my whole life. I’d love to give this a go. I’d prolly suck ass but why not. Some really good skill running with the ball balanced in the bat and all.
I also thought I was nasty and mean as an attackman. Some of these hits make lacrosse seem soft, an all ash bat to get clubbed with? I love the Irish. Nuts.
Lacrosse skills transfer over to hurling pretty well. I played lacrosse in high school and then found hurling when I turned 30 (hon the Denver Gaels!). It's quickly become my new favorite sport, it's so much fun to play. It definitely feels weird at first and there's a bit of a learning curve, but after a year or so of playing you start to get the basic skills down. You can't whack players with the hurl on purpose like you can with a lacrosse stick, but incidental smacks do happen and it hurts like hell. You learn pretty quickly to protect your hand when jumping up to catch a 50-50 puck out.
Impressive all around. Salute!
Bloody hell tough game lads respect from Australia
A real man's sport!!!
Croke Park isn’t the Home of hurling. If anything, Thurles is.
Yes
Yes
Hello tipp person ireland is
He means the main stage for it I think.its definately not my county anyway lol
Crow park is naw be Quiet 🤐
So fast! Love it!
God that looks like fun!!
I wish that we had this in America and I was young enough to play. That shit is a man's sport boy howdy!!! Proper violence !! No Soy Boys there.
Its great craic to play.
Love the sport
Gotta go to Ireland..... see a game
Yeah we're tough come see a game
Cool, it's like a combination of field lacrosse, field hockey and rugby
Hurling is an inspirational sport
First time hearing this sport and I love it! As tough as ice hockey but on field!
Who ever said Ice hockey is like hurling needs to come to ireland and see what the sport is all about it's not just a game it's like clan wars it's a matter of pride and the whole county is behind every player on the field and when they play hard work hard and train hard that's when they have the hearts of the whole country behind them something no ice skating ballerina could ever get
@@patricksmith7899 exactly
Ice hockey is like ballet compared to hurling
tough stuff.
Total war with a bat and ball and some well hard people. Respect!
I'd gladly watch this over North American football anyday!
Anyone else here from the comments on KSI's Video?
InsanityRenn yes lmao
hahah no way, thats awesome
Yes
Yep so true
Yep
I play Gaa football
PROUD TO BE IRISH!!!
By far ,the most kick ass sports vid ive seen in a long time,they dont fuck around in Ireland!!! Much Respect!
Bobby Rhoan ‘l”
Hurling and camogie like we Irish are class for making these sports
BEAUTIES. Real men and off the pitch humble as pie. WARRIORS...BUSHIDO SHONINSU honourable men for sure....V
And women
Women don't play hurling they play camóige
I was about to say the same lol
michael o'mahony ye and there is different rules
Same thing
It's the same thing tho
michael o'mahony THANK GOD SOMEONE SAID THAT
The greatest field game in the world.
Pure passion 🇮🇪
semple stadium is the home of hurling
Romanticizing the blood and "violence" of the sport is a great disservice. It is rough, but serious injuries are rare. It's the greatest sport yet devised by man for so many other reasons.
Clash of the ash runrig lyrics shows these lads play for the glory
There's some sore
balls out there! Ouch😫🤕 I'd seriously be running with the guys with the good Hurls. Laois 💚💚💚💚💚
Good bump at 06.37
Don't think all Irish people play this, just the wild ones😉
No its not played in wild mountainy areas at all infact the characteristic hurling areas are lush farmland and some cities.Its a sport if you don't start as soon as you can walk ,forget about there have been notable exceptions,but generally if its not in the DNA of a particular area you won't survive you need to be proficient in over 100 distinct skills some guy
@@thedarquibus Not in any of the schools i went to sligo anyway.There was hurling in my town at the time,but we have no hurling at the moment infact even football is only holding on.Soccer would be stronger.Like elsewhere in rural ireland its hard to put out a team even without competition from other sports due to lack of jobs
Most Irish people, despite their protestations to the contrary are actually heavily invested in britishness, and only about a 1/4 of the country plays and follows this game. Soccer and the English premier league are more popular, which is a shame as hurling is an amazing game that the Irish should be proud of.
Every one in Ireland has played a game of hurling
Cheers 😂😂😂
i love it
Love being Irish 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
My uncle's friend died playing hurling rip jim miss u love u kid
No shit. Was anyone suprised.
your uncles friend and calling him kid? do you have one of those weird families where the man that buggers you is called uncle?
RIP Jim!
Perhaps he was a young man when it happened and the nephew is now a grown man, perhaps older now then the guy who was killed. Hurling is a young guys game. There is a trophy named after a school kid killed playing it where I went to school.
Ben Larkin what club and county was it in said to hear
2:42 - some shoulder!
2:44 some point
He's called the rock for. Reason!
looks interesting enough to try it
A real game.
remember watching this on the TV in the late 60 on wide world of sports. the game was fun but some guy broke his leg and he was laying on the ground for a long time . with the game continues all around him for many minutes. My Irish grandparents told me about the game .the only thing nice i ever heard them say about Ireland. Growing up hungry they hated Ireland. grandmother has the saddest story about having one shoe and switching feet. trying to stay warm . God bless the USA. brave people who gave me a better life .and fuck the English
Yup, they hated the Irish Government and we still do, bought and paid for by the cabal!!
UP TIPP!
Eh no UP THE DUBS!!!!!!!!!
@@larkin7883 in hurling tho
Tipp are mad in hurling
Ancient Traditional Celtic sport you are viewing here, at least 4,000yrs old☘
That looks like alot of fun
I live in Ireland and the chances of somebody having a bloody face like all of the, is in around 1/10
Bs
Less
More so 1/90000000000000000000
How often do they just start whacking each other with the sticks?
Gaz Williams not often at all really. Usually people actually throw down the hurleys and start pucing the heads off eachother with their fists
The irish love a fight
Paul Mullen, are you looking for a fight or something?
pat ryan what makes you think that ?
Paul Mullen, it's a joke Paul, keep them on.....
pat ryan half asleep my friend ignore me its been one of them days ...
Paul Mullen,come to NZ youll get plenty of challenges,LOL.
Keep off the smack! DJ Paddy Fresh...Good Jeasus!
Omg this looks fun
The music really takes from this great sport , don’t know why people insist on doing this to their videos .
Why not just stick with music videos.
Soccer players spend 90mins pretending there injured. Hurlers spend 60 mins pretending there not.
70 mins
@@sarah3651 60mins when I wrote the comment smart arse
70 mins
@@sl_721 60 when I wrote the comment smart arse
@@killdallan69 it hasn’t changed in the last 3 years clever clogs
I’m proud to have family who played for cork, kilkenny and tip. Both senior and minor. But I’m most proud to be the first woman in the history of my family to play. Not minor or senior actually I’m too young. But hopefully some day! These people are skilled and deserve the worlds praise!
Years ago a busload of pub regulars on Long Island took a ride to Gaelic Park in Bronx NY. We were led by our friend the late-great Kilkenny hurler Mike O' Rourke . It was like walking in Yankee Stadium with Babe Ruth, EVERYONE knew Mike. It was only then we realized how great Mike must have been in his younger years.. Tough sport, don't know if I could handle it.
We're the hardest country in the world. : Helmets are required nowadays
Paul Mulhere, the 25-year-old Dublin hurler, was last night stated to be still critical at St Vincent's Hospital after suffering a serious head injury during last Sunday's Division One National Hurling League victory by Dublin over Laois. - The Cork Examiner, Wednesday November 6, 1985
That was copied and pasted from the Irish independent
Stephanie Coffey nice one right on the noggeeen
Up the rebels
Catch a glimpse of hockey! No soft grass, just solid ice. Razors on the feet causing sliced throats. Pucks travel in Excess of 108 miles per hour. Body checks occur at 20 miles per hour... this is just aggresive lacrosse
Ben Hopper ye and guess what use wear protective gear we only have a helmet and Mouth gaurd and the rest is u pray u don’t die
1 the game isn't that hard to play in know this because I'm irish and play.
2 it also isn't that gruesome
It isnt hard cus youve prob been playing since ur a kid and not gruesome cus ur most likely not a county player
Sam Hartigan I’m guessing you’re a sub or something
I'm wing back and play county under 14. I've only broken my wrist once in it and have been sent of 7 times for fighting.
You are probably not a player molly xox and if you are you would play camogie or ladies football which are both non contact sports.
Kevin I've been playing since I was four and started training with my club when I was 5 and a half
Sam Hartigan I am a player lol. I do play ladies football & camogie but I also play boys football & hurling.
Non stop action, NO backwards for these heros, As i irish man i can say its the most exciting sport
Heading to Ireland soon.. wouldn't mind catching a game.
American football has got nothing on hurling.
If American football players played it they would destroy any team they played against. Besides the fact that these two sports aren't even close in comparison.
Rottie Lady well it depends hurling consists of tactics as well as getting hit with a Hurley by accident with no padding so yeah
FuckEbonics American football is for pussies
Rottie Lady only thats its a shit sport
Just because you're right doesn't mean we can't appreciate both sports for different reasons.
What's the ball made of? I'd hate to be goal keeping...
Cody S. Not sure exactly but it’s hard as in solid and it sucks being a goalie coming from experience
Cork wrapped in leather also cork is the stuff at the top of wine bottles
If you're used to it it's not too bad but every time you get a wack of a sliotar it hurts more than the last
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliotar
I live in the United States and I didn’t even know this existed.
It looks awesome
Barely anyone knows it exists but it’s the most popular sport in Ireland
Other countries to chicken to play our game were tough little nation when it comes to sports long live us Irish so proud 💚💚💚💚💚💚☘️👍👍
Helmets aren’t optional they’re compulsory
Rachel Browne Jesus your comments manage to come up in every bloody video I watch. 😂
Shane O Donnell haha I’m GAA mad so I am 😂😂
Rachel Browne new Donegal away jerseys class
They’re one of the nicer ones anyways, as for Kerry’s I’m not too sure
Used to be optional
God Bless Hurling
Neil Lennon 88 coybig
them Irish boys be crazy!
As an Irish person this makes hurling look a lot rougher than it is we wear helmets to protects our head we do get injuries but it's not like it happens every time we play hurling