Canadians React To Hurling 

Grace Owen 🖐🤚

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Grace Owen I'm from dublin nice to meet ye

Cork girl!

It already is an international sport, New York and London even have a team that could compete in our All Ireland Championship if they qualified. London has won the All Ireland before, in 1901. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_GAA - If they were good enough, they could play in Ireland and have a chance to win the cup.

In gaelic football ,but not hurling.Hurling is much weaker for both those citys.In football my county are playing NY next year and i am not sure we are going to win usually it would be a formality

It's not going to die out any time soon. I believe it's big in Ireland?

X3r_Cobraz Its big but only in about a quarter of ireland and playing numbers are falling unfortunately.Kilkenny have won 11 all irelands since 2000 this has lead to the championship being boring and crowds are declining.Cork who were traditionally good have fallen by the wayside and they are the biggest hurling county in terms of population.Soccer and rugby are taking over all over ireland and hurlings sister sport is also in difficulty Gaelic football,both sports are rural and rural population is in decline and gaelic is dominated by dublin being our biggest city and they won 3 all irelands in 4 years and their clubs are doing well with country lads moving to dublin to work.

stoney71 it is only played in Ireland😣

Kristofer Mc Cormack. hahahahaha. love it

Ya except they mean ice hockey which is played by french canadians which are usually catholics

lmao, that's the best description of Hurling I've seen

I'm sad because they gave them plastic hurls

Tom Breen where I live when your younger a lot of girls and boys play with the plastic ones AKA Fiberglass

correct

So is lacrosse

Yes lacrosse is old,but because gaelic(irish) has the oldest vernacular literature apart from latin and greek we have a better idea of how old it is.Brehon laws are the oldest code of laws in europe and go back at least 2000yrs.The brehon laws had a fixed compensation amount made payable to relatives of players killed in the game and compensation to the player if he was only injured.They also had a law governing the metal band on the stick only nobles could have a bronze metal band.The native americans aside from the mayans had no written literature and did not write down there laws so we can only guess how old lacrosse is.The irish were an illiterate people for a long time before christianity came to ireland as well however we are a literate people for at least 1500 years and can definitively said that hurling is at least that old

Greased SuaSaaage Lacrosse is not well known in ireland only for american pie it would not be known at all compared to other american sports such as baseball basketball gridiron,You would probably find people who never heard of it

Rory Mellis No shinty is based on an old version of hurling played in the north of ireland and scotland whereas the modern game of hurling is based on leinster hurling.The northern form was played mostly on the ground with a wooden ball and the southern form was with a hair ball played on the ground as well ,but also in the air and allowed the use of the hands.

Chip Suh'Hoy I don’t like Hurling

@@Kingseye7 That's nice

Hockey evolved from the Scottish game of Shinty. Still played in Scotland today.

shity evolved from hurling ice hockey evolved from hurling when irish fisherman spent winters on the east coast of Canada fishing

@@johnmcintyre800 Shinty was derived from the same historical roots as Hurling but evolved separately, like Bando which was played in Wales. It's derived from the historic game common to both peoples. Shinny was a version of Shinty played on the ice by Scottish immigrants in Canada, which led to Ice Hockey. Shinty seems more similar to Ice Hockey than Hurling but I suspect both had their own influences.

It has two goals: grandstands for the ball; and home for the batter.

Well I think Catcher is the most similar

😂

Ok, but don't call me duh.

Lol

best game in the world

+Cathal Ó Diubháin hell yea but some people in my school says its shit

John Dillon you get them everywhere, I have one or 2 two friends that hate hurling, but Id play it all day till I drop

+Cathal Ó Diubháin Your balls?

Niall Campbell I don't I like Gaelic football more

I hope people agree

+Darth Shadow UP THE REBELS

Ravaged by the GAA, raped by Sky.

I agree with this with every ounce of my Gealic heritage.

Really ? how do we know?

parsoniareigns history

Meen?

imelda Kennedy actually nothing to do with celts. The Celts did not come to Ireland singing dancing and playing sport... accept on social media

@@parsoniareigns it was a way to train for war in Ireland

veronicadredd22 it is called hurling not hurley

veronicadredd22 it's not the sport of Hurley it's the sport of hurling

ar a dtugar an iomanaiocht ni hurley [would have used fadas but cant do them]

Gemma Kelleher Tá sé an spóirt is fear sa doimhan!!!!! (níl mo littrú ró maith 😅)

Gemma Kelleher sorry I only play camogie

Camogie and Hurling are the same thing one uses girls one uses boys that it though

same up limerick

Anyone here from Donegal?

+Izzy Bates and soccer players are still shit

Wait, they don't get payed? Why?

Its the ethos of the GAA that sports should be played for the love of the game and for the pride of your local community.Hardly any one gets paid they are 2300 GAA clubs all run by unpaid volunteers.The GAA also has gaelic football which is more popular they don't get paid either.Now managers are beginning to get paid and the higher up officials.One of teams featured kilkenny only won 5 games to win the championship the week after they all played against eachother inthere counties league and thats how the games work you play for your club where your born and if good enough play for the county where your born.You can play for a different county if you move club to a different county and after awhile become elligible for the county team or you have a parent from that county. The second reason is that ireland is a small market pro sport does not really work here.Soccer is semipro at best,because the english league is more popular rugby is pro ,but thats because rugby is an international sport and we have 4 teams playing in a wider european league,that option is not available for GAA its completely unknown outside ireland The Stadium they are playing in holds 82000 if they had to pay the players it would be half that.

Izzy Bates that's because soccer players don't have day jobs and they have nothing better to be doing

patrick kavanagh yip its the hardest sport in the world if not pretty much and their not even paid ffs gaa

Exactly!

Hockey actually is the baby of ice hockey lacrosse and a mi’kmaq sport! I play both and love both!

That's amazing to hear! Passion for the game is everything!

good on you..and welcome to the greatest game in the world

Cathal Ó Diubháin I certainly have a new found respect for fellas playing at the top level! Gaelic football's still my main one though.

TheLastAngryMan01 Football is a great auld game too, but for me Ill be playing till I drop. In Ireland counties would be known for hurling or football, Munster would be more hurling, Ulster would be more football as would Connacht and Leinster more football, although Dublin are dangerous in football and hurling.....And the Cats are are from Leinster and are top notch hurlers... Keep on playing man

Cathal Ó Diubháin Ah yeah, I'm Irish myself, based abroad. Mayo isn't exactly huge hurling country which is why I've just taken it up here. Some experience to be wielding a Hurley alongside French, Austrians, Americans, Roscommons 😂

Iona Teg it's called a hand pass

No thats DJ CAREY

Not anymore

Yup Kilkenny

No just Ireland I'm Irish and we like the fact it's just us

+Ollie Watson up the dubs Ireland all the way 🌧☔️🌧☁️⛅️

up the Deise

UP THE CATS!!!!!

UP THE DÉISE!!!!! :D

Noooooooo Limerick all the way

Up tipp up riding

UP TIPP!!!

Up The Banner

Cáca Milis sa Seomra Spraoi Fantastic user name, kudos.

Cáca Milis sa Seomra Spraoi Ta failte romhat!

cake in the playroom haha

Neill House there the same

Definitely we can be tough aswell😅😅

jimmymc71 what's ur uncles name

Ya tell

Nice

It was also an alternative to war

Want to sneakily kill someone? Play a game of hurling with them

@@annalyons8956 actually we dont war or attack any countries we try to creat piece too other countries at war and help them too

Harry Reeves the Irish did not go to war!!

@@TheWrensHouse we did with each other

HonorGAA - GAA Content sue him.

HonorGAA - GAA Content my it name is evie but my really name is honor!

C.BURKE 2.0 hon the deise. Bring Liam home!

Thanks Eamonn!

Never met Jerome Quinn in person. I follow him on social media though.

Same

I'd rather take a 21 yard free to the balls that take the shit from my teammates if I let it in

Thanks for the support, Robbie! So glad you like it!

its hurling

Its the only sport in the world that is called different names according to gender.For example hurling is the mens game while camogie is the womens game ,but except far some minor rule differences they are the same sport

JameGumbsMigraines. There is a girls version called camogie dumbass

There the exact same sport but in camogie you can hand pass it into the goals where in hurling you cant

JameGumbsMigraines. It is because I'm a girl and I play

I know what you're saying but it would ruin the essence of what makes it so special. Plus Ireland would probably win gold all the time. LOL

So glad you liked it, Clodgha!

Yeah but no one knows how long lacrosse has been around, it could be older than hurling because the Native Americans have lived in North America for 12,000 years and it was invented by them, and we don't have the records of when it was actually invented only when it was discovered by European's

I have a collection of 11 hurls including Star Hurleys and Cultecs.

Play Hurling I'm American from Spartanburg , South Carolina , and just recently got turned on to this sport . There is a company in Greenville , South Carolina that makes hurls . There is a small league in this area last I heard . This area is blessed with a wide assortment of trees in abundance. I'm led to believe that good timber has become expensive and hard to obtain in Europe . What say you ?

Hurley here in Ireland are made out of ash and you are right, ash is slowly running out. There are a good few companies making hurleys out of fibreglass, special plastic formulas and that kind of thing. Of course there's nothing like a good ol ash hurl

Ginger Gamer_69 it predates Christianity, so it's at least 1500 years older than America

Hockey is one of them.

Thanks Sean!

Soccer and rugby is usually seen as gay, as a thumb rule. Hurling and GAELIC FOOTBALLERS usually is seen as strait. But half a team was sacked in co Roscommon when it turned out they were gay. THE GAYS WERE GOOD FOOTBALLERS.