@@tomk.williams1186 basically the money goes back into the clubs so that they can pay for equipment etc Also keep in mind the tickets aren't very expensive, you might pay 80 euro to be at the biggest match of the year
@@tomk.williams1186 except thats the price of the all ireland final, the final of the championship, the most important game of the year. im sure the final of say the premier league would be more expensive.
Two best things about Hurling and Gaelic sports. 1) They're "amateur" sports played by people fully committed to the game. The real definition of "amateur" is those who do something for the true love of it. Those totally passionate to something for no other reward greater than the enjoyment. 2) As the report said you go to any town, village or community in Ireland and you'll see kids playing. The real beauty is that it's also a great way for kids who's family emigrated from elsewhere to Ireland to integrate into the community. At the kids level, it's a social thing, just have fun! We're seeing more and more kids who's parents are Asian and African take up these games and its brilliant to see.
Very true, I moved from the Philippines to the north of Ireland as a wee kid and if it wasn't for Gaelic I wouldn't have appreciated as much the beautiful Irish culture and the fantastic people in the GAA community.
@@JunJun10771 ohhhh ok could I ask ples firstly does that meen hurling isn’t a Gaelic b is Gaelic football the only Gaelic sport or is there any other?
The black eyes i got from playing were bad enough but ending up with denture in my teens probably topped the lot, still didn't stop me from playing or loving the sport.
@@martinclail9290 my granddad played hurling when they didnt have helmets and he told me a story that one match a player on the other team got so angry that he chopped the hurl like and axe on the top of his head and it split open and he still played the match, he is my inspiration to make my county hurling team
Hurling and gaelic football is just about nearly everyones life here in ireland. Its all pure passion as you dont get paid and u play for where your from.
I think they already have teams in like the big places out there. It's more or less the same game. I'd love to go over and just destroy any body in a game Hon limerick
Well the field is much bigger so you don’t need to break as often, with a sport like hockey the play area is a fourth the size and players are three times as fast, so they get tired much faster.
I live in the United States (North Carolina) and love to watch this sport and Gaelic Football. Where I live in Raleigh we even have a group of Irish and native North Carolinians that gather on weekends to play hurling and Gaelic football.
Every Irish guy has played this game at least once at some point in there lives, me included. Although I was never very good :P. The ball, or sliotar as it's called in Ireland, is a hard thing and is hit by the hurl with such force that if it hits you, it stings like mad. The other great thing about this game is that it's not a professional job. Most of the people who play hurling for their clubs and counties are normal people, bank workers, teachers, gardai, you name it. Also there is a female version too, called Camogie. It's one of the best field sports ever, baseball, lacrosse and hockey don't come close to it.
No...it's ice hockey meets rugby meets baseball meets lacrosse, but they all came from Hurling. All these sports are basically a watered down version of Hurling.
As an Irishman who played and loves our wonderful sport of hurling i must say that the obsession with the game is turning to boredom. There are people messing around with the rules and ruining our fantastic game of hurling. Go back to normal. It wasnt broke so what are you trying to fix. 🇮🇪
Probably the greatest field game there is but not as popular as Gaelic Football. Football is played in every county, every parish, village and town in Ireland. The GAA is the heart and soul of Ireland.
Yeh, they are largely split geographically but Gaelic Football had the bigger share. I taught in a school in Tyrone in Northern Ireland and a Hurling teacher came in but it was very much a novelty.
@@maxdecimus13 No, you're missing the point completely. GAA isn't a sport itself. The Gaelic Athletics Association is the head of Gaelic Football and Hurling.
The bit about where you play being where you were born is fascinating! I think an issue that has emerged in the major American sports is that it's hard to feel as much of a connection to your hometown team when the roster turns over every couple years and you have starts playing for 4 or 5 teams over the course of 7 or 8 seasons. Truly tying your team's identity to the team's home is really cool! Obviously wouldn't work for everything, there would be major parity issues trying to implement that here, but I just think it's neat that it exists in some form!
That's because there's minor leagues and literally town and parish clubs, this feeds into school teams and then you're playing for the town and then county, after that it's a move to Senior level and a shot at the All Ireland.
Hi Irish people are just called Irish not Gaelic! :) If you want to say it in the Irish language, you can say Éireannach. Great to see you love the sport 🇮🇪
@@ciara5181 1500s,1600s,1700s cricket bat look like Hurling Bat. Later it got an shape. In Papua new Gunia Some Tribe still play cricket with Hurling bat, The Called the Game "kirikati".
As an American who doesn't enjoy sports at all, and who's also enevr heard of this sport till about 5 minutes before this comment, this looks amazing and I wanna do it, sadly I'm not in enough shape for it
I'm an NFL fan, specifically my beloved SuperChickens, the Seattle Seahawks. And before anybody starts with the 'bandwagon' nonsense, I have a picture of 12 y/o me in 1976 standing between Jim Zorn and Jack Patera, the original QB and head coach respectively. I've put up with my team for a LONG time and in those 45 some-odd years there's been more bad seasons than good. All that being said, I have no leg to stand on when it comes to being a fan of niche sports. 😂 And here's one that'll bake your noodle: **Cricket** has more fans and makes more money than either the NFL or the NBA. But I still think curling is frikkin' weird. That's a game that almost requires alcohol to be entertained by....
All you bandwagon Seahawks fans. Where were you before they drafted Russell Wilson. JK. That is awesome that your 12 year old self got a picture with Jim Zorn.
To be honest Ice hockey is one of the toughest sports on the planet like Hurling, but modern soccer has turned into diving/theatrics and cheating. It has nothing in common with Hurling, or ice hockey.
Really the pitch shape, goals/scoring, and player positions I thought were very similar to soccer. And soloing in hurling reminded me of a cradling run in lacrosse. And the hits looked a lot like lacrosse and field hockey.
@@elflakeador09 as for diving in soccer it all depends on who you're watching. I mean you don't see England, Germany, Dutch, Belgium, USA players diving every five minutes. Yeah it has been a problem like it has in the NBA too but it was way worse in soccer a few years ago. VAR and fines means way less dives/flops now.
It's not a national obsession. The game is only played seriously in around 10 counties out 32 counties. You don't have to play were your born. You can play for any county you reside in.
2:09 United States Should teach this to their students. Maybe people wouldn’t be so fast to bully when a kid has a giant stick in his hand to defend himself.
As to the origins of the sport. (Field) Hockey, Bandy, Hurley and Camogie (the girls equivalent of Hurley) all derive from the same source. They’re just off-shoots of each other.
@@jamesmernagh9624 Sorry James! Force of habit as when it’s talked about when I’m with my wife’s family and friends in Ireland the accent loses the ‘ing’ and is heard as ‘hurley’! It has become Hurley due to length of time!
I played hurling growing up in Tipperary and I can safely say its the most stupid game there is. I only played it because everyone else did and hated it. To be fair, I wouldn't be the first person to say they hate the sport they played. Andre Agassi hated playing tennis.
No We do thing in Africa to teach kids how to play Iceland had a type of hurling but not as a country only to acknowledge their Celtic past Ireland is the only country that plays hurling and it’s not a professional sport none of these players get money
And remember it's an amateur sport players don't get paid, but will attract crowds of 60 to 80 thousand at the top matches.
Where is the ticket money going then if it ain't the players?
@@tomk.williams1186 Gaelic Athletic Association who reinvest into grassroots
@@tomk.williams1186 basically the money goes back into the clubs so that they can pay for equipment etc
Also keep in mind the tickets aren't very expensive, you might pay 80 euro to be at the biggest match of the year
@@liamclancy9955 80 euro? That ain't cheap ..thats enough to go watch Manchester United twice and have a couple of pints
@@tomk.williams1186 except thats the price of the all ireland final, the final of the championship, the most important game of the year. im sure the final of say the premier league would be more expensive.
Two best things about Hurling and Gaelic sports.
1) They're "amateur" sports played by people fully committed to the game. The real definition of "amateur" is those who do something for the true love of it. Those totally passionate to something for no other reward greater than the enjoyment.
2) As the report said you go to any town, village or community in Ireland and you'll see kids playing. The real beauty is that it's also a great way for kids who's family emigrated from elsewhere to Ireland to integrate into the community. At the kids level, it's a social thing, just have fun! We're seeing more and more kids who's parents are Asian and African take up these games and its brilliant to see.
Very truely. Incredibly good for integration as well as you said
Very true, I moved from the Philippines to the north of Ireland as a wee kid and if it wasn't for Gaelic I wouldn't have appreciated as much the beautiful Irish culture and the fantastic people in the GAA community.
@@JunJun10771 isnt gealic gaelic football or is this in it too?
@@gothicgolem2947 I was replying to Cathal's comments on top about "hurling and garlic sports"
@@JunJun10771 ohhhh ok could I ask ples firstly does that meen hurling isn’t a Gaelic b is Gaelic football the only Gaelic sport or is there any other?
The greatest sport ever! I saw a game on USA tv a couple of years ago and thought it was awesome. I can’t wait to visit Ireland and see a match!
There is games in the US. New York has a famous park just for these sports.
Thank you so much for letting me know! Much appreciated!
You're welcome any time. See the women's game Camóige too. I'll buy you a ticket for a match and a pint afterwards! www.usgaa.org
I'm Irish and I play it up Meath
Ha😂 youve never watched baseball! The WORLD series for a reason buddy
The black eyes i got from playing were bad enough but ending up with denture in my teens probably topped the lot, still didn't stop me from playing or loving the sport.
Should have wore a Helmut
@@od9694 we didn't have the luxury in the 60s.
@@martinclail9290 my granddad played hurling when they didnt have helmets and he told me a story that one match a player on the other team got so angry that he chopped the hurl like and axe on the top of his head and it split open and he still played the match, he is my inspiration to make my county hurling team
Truly one of the most amazing sports in the world. Lacrosse, rugby, and baseball combined.
Hurling is older than all of those so technically they were all indirectly inspired by Hurling.
@@Sineadmurnanemurphylacrosse was invented by Native Americans before they had contact with Europe.
@@Sineadmurnanemurphy isnt hurling the oldest ball sport?
@@hiii18 I think stick sport, idk about ball sport
@@hiii18It originally wasn't a sport.
It was used to train soldiers for battle (spear and shield).
As an American I’ve really gotten into hurling over the last year. It’s awesome
Are you still up to date pal ? I'm glad to see this
Honestly I want to play hurling, I am an American of Irish heritage who would like to move back to Ireland for a long time.
Hurling and gaelic football is just about nearly everyones life here in ireland. Its all pure passion as you dont get paid and u play for where your from.
doesnt really matter what sport it is, if you put 80,000 people in a stadium its about to get LIT
And add a load of Irish after a few drinks at the All Ireland Final hahaha
Absolutely the greatest sport out there and my favorite to play. Wish I would've found it earlier and I hope it's popularity grows in the States.
Americans won't want it because, Ireland is too close to England 😅
@@buffaloblack3993 60million Americans claim Irish ancestry so they do seem to like us
There are over 50 Hurling clubs in the US.
Full body contact, head high, hockey. I love it.
Please don't introduce it to America. They'd add stupid pads and they'd be swapping the entire team every two mins with 5 min breaks each time.
I think they already have teams in like the big places out there. It's more or less the same game. I'd love to go over and just destroy any body in a game
Hon limerick
@@davidobrien8683 was in new York 2 years back played some football, and I felt like a county star compared to the yanks
Well the field is much bigger so you don’t need to break as often, with a sport like hockey the play area is a fourth the size and players are three times as fast, so they get tired much faster.
@Ya Boi Harry I was referring to hockey, where average speeds for a player can get up to 25 miles per hour. It’s a much faster sport
@@user-dk2ol7pq6r my mistake, I meant ice hockey
I live in the United States (North Carolina) and love to watch this sport and Gaelic Football. Where I live in Raleigh we even have a group of Irish and native North Carolinians that gather on weekends to play hurling and Gaelic football.
Best sport on Earth.. full stop 💚🇮🇪🇮🇪
😂😂
Cricket
@@sanatanyug33is for wankers
@@sanatanyug33Cricket is not that old.
Been going to Gaelic park in the Bronx since I was a kid. Absolutely love hurling and Gaelic football is good too.
It’s more than a Game, It’s who you are. That gave me chills.
Every Irish guy has played this game at least once at some point in there lives, me included. Although I was never very good :P. The ball, or sliotar as it's called in Ireland, is a hard thing and is hit by the hurl with such force that if it hits you, it stings like mad. The other great thing about this game is that it's not a professional job. Most of the people who play hurling for their clubs and counties are normal people, bank workers, teachers, gardai, you name it. Also there is a female version too, called Camogie. It's one of the best field sports ever, baseball, lacrosse and hockey don't come close to it.
That's not true. There are large parts of the country where it's barely played at all.
Excellent contribution.poor man.@@kieranduffy6760
I went to a match in Kilkenny last month while visiting from the USA. I really enjoyed it.
Fanstastic sport for fantastic people, keeping your cultural heritage alive like this is so key. Good on you.
best live game of sport I've ever seen.. brilliant!
So basically this is rugby meets ice hockey. Love it.
No...it's ice hockey meets rugby meets baseball meets lacrosse, but they all came from Hurling.
All these sports are basically a watered down version of Hurling.
-Is it Hockey, or Cricket or Football or Rugby?
-Yes
All of the modern sports of today derived from Hurling.
Not the other way around.
As an Irishman who played and loves our wonderful sport of hurling i must say that the obsession with the game is turning to boredom. There are people messing around with the rules and ruining our fantastic game of hurling. Go back to normal. It wasnt broke so what are you trying to fix. 🇮🇪
Best sport on The Planet 🌎 ☘️🇮🇪
I’m South African but watched it once and was hooked.
Probably the greatest field game there is but not as popular as Gaelic Football. Football is played in every county, every parish, village and town in Ireland. The GAA is the heart and soul of Ireland.
Yeh, they are largely split geographically but Gaelic Football had the bigger share. I taught in a school in Tyrone in Northern Ireland and a Hurling teacher came in but it was very much a novelty.
What is with this stupid differentiation between hurling and GAA?
THEY'RE THE SAME ORGANISATION!!!
@@youngdolo8 so the 100m and the high jump aren't different sports because they're under the same organisation?
@@maxdecimus13 No, you're missing the point completely. GAA isn't a sport itself. The Gaelic Athletics Association is the head of Gaelic Football and Hurling.
@@youngdolo8 I re-read the thread, I didn't realise the original guy called football GAA.
They are two different sports though.
I come from Kilkenny, the powerhouse of Hurling in Ireland!
Not anymore...
Love from County Limerick, Up the bois in Green!
Up Leinster 😉
Come on the rebels
Hon limerick
its the fastest field sport in the world .. these guys are tough .. the level of skill and technique is up there with any sport you can imagine
The bit about where you play being where you were born is fascinating! I think an issue that has emerged in the major American sports is that it's hard to feel as much of a connection to your hometown team when the roster turns over every couple years and you have starts playing for 4 or 5 teams over the course of 7 or 8 seasons. Truly tying your team's identity to the team's home is really cool! Obviously wouldn't work for everything, there would be major parity issues trying to implement that here, but I just think it's neat that it exists in some form!
That's because there's minor leagues and literally town and parish clubs, this feeds into school teams and then you're playing for the town and then county, after that it's a move to Senior level and a shot at the All Ireland.
Love from WV!! Love the game and the motherland!!
Love ur name Brogan Daugherty-Kelly. From a Dubliner!✌️
I’m from California and I got into hurling through TH-cam videos. I’m not Gaelic but up Tipp! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Hi Irish people are just called Irish not Gaelic! :) If you want to say it in the Irish language, you can say Éireannach. Great to see you love the sport 🇮🇪
Ignore that goon.
Up Leinster 😉
Just say irish Greg pal
Wrong county cork is for you 😊😊
Hurling is a binge drinker's favorite pasttime, too
I drank about 10 pints of Guinness while watching a match. Almost fainted when I peed! It was black!
You Wouldn't Drink Water.
That would be rugby.
Irish lacrosse got it
That sports is combination of Football,Rugby, Cricket and Hockey.
@@ciara5181 1500s,1600s,1700s cricket bat look like Hurling Bat. Later it got an shape.
In Papua new Gunia Some Tribe still play cricket with Hurling bat, The Called the Game "kirikati".
You should definitely see a game if you're in Ireland
More like 3500 years.
I'm from Tipperary. Up Tipp🇺🇦🇺🇦
Up Leinster 😉
Up offaly
I told my wife when we got married that there is someone I will always love more and that is my hurling stick.
Hurling: the best of Ireland.
Hurling is the best sport
Hon the Cats☘🇮🇪 🖤💛
Anything irish, touches a nerve with me.
@matt
Derrrrrrrr.
I have Irish blood. FFS DH!!!!
@@vickidianacoghlan8946 ah jesus
The Banner! ☘️
My 16 year old son in Kilkenny has been playing for 10 years and is brilliant at it.
Something in the water down there.
Disclaimer : nobody else in Ireland talks like the president
literally nobody lol
😆😆
Greatest Game On Earth. Up Leinster ☘🇮🇪💚
Who came here after Roy Keane talk about it in Overlap 😅
Lacrosse and field hockey had a baby
Wish they would show this in the US once in a while, it looks great!
Oldest sport in the world, it’s in the ancient myths
💚
As an American who doesn't enjoy sports at all, and who's also enevr heard of this sport till about 5 minutes before this comment, this looks amazing and I wanna do it, sadly I'm not in enough shape for it
My right hand thumb is still deformed from a tap of a hurly I got as a kid. Great game, still love to watch it.
For something called 60 minutes, I'm beyond disappointed.
Strange for us who grew up playing hurling to think it's an alien sport to everyone else ha
This is what makes Ireland Ireland
☘
Unfortunately our culture is being watered down and killed by foreigners. GAA won't be around in another 50 years
@@WakaWaka2468 is hislop an Irish name
@@WakaWaka2468 sad
@@WakaWaka2468 that’s simply untrue
the term ''fighting irish'' has its roots in hurling because we fight each other town by town but we fight the world as one nation.
No foreign labor muddying up the competition. It's organic and natural. Love it
Never bet against an Irishman in an egg and spoon race!
Hence why we're not the New Zealand of rugby in the North.
Rugby, football, cricket all in one
Aussie rules football is badass as well...
State of Origin rugby series in Australia, too...
Take it from a guy who was clobbered by one of those things: It hurts. A lot.
Basically Irish lacrosse
Its a mixture of football, cricket and rugby.
Hurling is my ex-girlfriends favorite pastime. Steve
Thanks Steve
She played Camogie then?
Have you got a phone number for her?
Ex girlfriend oops
My county, Limerick are the current All-Ireland Champions 😎💚
Hon Limerick 🇳🇬
I'm an NFL fan, specifically my beloved SuperChickens, the Seattle Seahawks. And before anybody starts with the 'bandwagon' nonsense, I have a picture of 12 y/o me in 1976 standing between Jim Zorn and Jack Patera, the original QB and head coach respectively. I've put up with my team for a LONG time and in those 45 some-odd years there's been more bad seasons than good.
All that being said, I have no leg to stand on when it comes to being a fan of niche sports. 😂 And here's one that'll bake your noodle: **Cricket** has more fans and makes more money than either the NFL or the NBA.
But I still think curling is frikkin' weird. That's a game that almost requires alcohol to be entertained by....
All you bandwagon Seahawks fans. Where were you before they drafted Russell Wilson.
JK. That is awesome that your 12 year old self got a picture with Jim Zorn.
Loch Garman abú💜💛
I love this sport with all my heart lol
Come on Corcaigh!
Come on the rebels
Go County Kilkenny!!!!
Westmeath the best county in Ireland .the ❤
Westmeath is a breakaway county.
It's full of fast women and slow men
@@danbreen1916 And nervous sheep!!!🤓
@@tonymurray814 😂
@@danbreen1916 I've been chasing those women for years, I wish they would slow down and let me catch them. Abu Contae Na Iarmhi.
Looks like a combination of lacrosse, field hockey, and soccer.
To be honest Ice hockey is one of the toughest sports on the planet like Hurling, but modern soccer has turned into diving/theatrics and cheating. It has nothing in common with Hurling, or ice hockey.
Really the pitch shape, goals/scoring, and player positions I thought were very similar to soccer. And soloing in hurling reminded me of a cradling run in lacrosse. And the hits looked a lot like lacrosse and field hockey.
@@elflakeador09 as for diving in soccer it all depends on who you're watching. I mean you don't see England, Germany, Dutch, Belgium, USA players diving every five minutes. Yeah it has been a problem like it has in the NBA too but it was way worse in soccer a few years ago. VAR and fines means way less dives/flops now.
I love hurling!
Americans think they're so Irish, yet they talk about hurling like they've never heard of it!
Oh here we go. And you don't know how good corned beef and cabbage are.
Please include captions.
And I thought Hurling is what you did in Ireland,after to many pints in the pub !😂❤️
Irish can handle our liquor
The greatest sport
Full contact golf
No
They say Horse Racing is the Sport of Kings.
Hurling is the Sport of the Gods!!
It's not a national obsession.
The game is only played seriously in around 10 counties out 32 counties.
You don't have to play were your born. You can play for any county you reside in.
None of that's true, it's played in every village in Ireland
glad they wear helmets now, that sliotar can spell devastating damage
I see a huge financial opportunity 😂
the game doesnt travel well. even the russians wont risk playing the game, they think its madness
It's a mule between cricket hokey and football 😂😂😂
Predates both
came to educate myself while reading The Boys of Tommen because I wanna know what Joey Lynch actually plays
2:09 United States Should teach this to their students. Maybe people wouldn’t be so fast to bully when a kid has a giant stick in his hand to defend himself.
It's one of the things the makes me proud to be Irish. Up the Dubs
Has to be greatest sport in the world 🌍. No better.
I wanna play!
Mission: Impossible - Goalkeeping In Hurling
As to the origins of the sport. (Field) Hockey, Bandy, Hurley and Camogie (the girls equivalent of Hurley) all derive from the same source. They’re just off-shoots of each other.
Hurling Came First.
@@odonnchada9994 Very difficult to prove or disprove? It also depends on your definition of Hurley!
@@marcuswardle3180 Its From Ancient Myth.
@@marcuswardle3180 stop calling it Hurley you clown
@@jamesmernagh9624 Sorry James! Force of habit as when it’s talked about when I’m with my wife’s family and friends in Ireland the accent loses the ‘ing’ and is heard as ‘hurley’! It has become Hurley due to length of time!
I was ready to see people throw up in in field 😅😅
Why am I 21 years old and have never heard of seen anything about this sport?
Probably because your American - the dumbest,most uneducated race on the planet, America - Dumfuckisthan
In the US, hurling means throwing up.
Amazing sport. Been watching for 4 decades.
Two chowsend years??? Dash a long time!
I’ve hurled a time or two!
I played hurling growing up in Tipperary and I can safely say its the most stupid game there is. I only played it because everyone else did and hated it. To be fair, I wouldn't be the first person to say they hate the sport they played. Andre Agassi hated playing tennis.
Stop bull shitting, you have never played it,
That’s exactly who we are.1000 percent Irish.
The auld Tipperary rifle
Is this game played in other countries at the same level of proficiency as in Ireland?
No
We do thing in Africa to teach kids how to play
Iceland had a type of hurling but not as a country only to acknowledge their Celtic past
Ireland is the only country that plays hurling and it’s not a professional sport none of these players get money