Just bought a new hurl online and seen there was a knot within the bas of the hurl, would this make it more likely to break?

Hey!

Hurling fan from Finland coming for Sunday final! Was wondering if other hurling fans would like to meet up for Guiness on Saturday afternoon/eve?

Would be nice to meet other people at the group!

Im staying close to St. Stephens Park, but free to come where ever its good for others.

Cheers!

Happy to be told I’m completely in wrong but wanted to get it off my chest and see if anyone was in a similar boat. I am sick to the teeth of the amount of *SWAP ONLY* messages where people have hurling tickets, and are looking for football tickets in return, when there are thousands of good hurling people that wouldn’t have a notion of having a football ticket to swap with them? If you don’t want to attend the hurling final, sell on the ticket and try your luck for the football when they are released?

Not directly related to hurling so delete if not allowed, just trying to help some people out 😄 Asics boots are now available in Ireland under the rugby section of their site. I have a pair I got in Aus and they solved my achilles problems on the hard ground so I highly recommend them to anyone struggling with leg injuries!!!

If galway are to win, how will they? Will jason rabitte be a major factor? And also general predictions for the final

Hi everyone, I'm an exile in Germany who has been playing with a club over here the past year or so. The standard is a bit mixed and it's generally a pretty relaxed atmosphere at training etc. Certainly would only be junior level in the competitions we play in.

I'll be in London for work from September until the end of the year and want to keep up the training, as its the main sport that I play at the moment. Does anybody know of hurling clubs in London who are open to people joining training and play at a more casual level? I've been looking up clubs online, but it's quite hard to tell whether they would be too serious for a less skilled player such as myself.

Thanks for any advice!

My noninees would be:

cathal mannion

Conor whelan

Gearoid hegarty

Any thoughts on this?

Has anyone tried the torpey klaw glove? If so what's it like compared to others? In dire need of a new glove. Currently use the mycro one but the torpey one looks interesting

Hey,

Were are two big hurling fans from Finland and are flying to Dublin for 19.7 finals. Only problem we dont have tickets. Where could we buy those or could someone from here to sell them, thanks a lot!

Does anyone know how to get a 2 colour helmet? I have a friend who's happy to swap with me but I'm not sure how to do it?

What are the chances that a few tickets will go for sale in Ticketmaster for the all ireland final. I know a few years ago a few went up a few days before final.

It was a mission to find a place to watch the hurling in SIEM reap but there is a small place called Jungle burger just off bar street that have it. Hope this post helps someone

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Random question for the GAA heads here.

Smallest GAA club/parish in each county?

Random one for the GAA historians and local-knowledge merchants.

What would be considered the smallest GAA club or smallest GAA parish/catchment in each county?

I’m especially interested in clubs that don’t really have a “full parish” behind them, or clubs whose catchment is awkward because of county/parish boundaries.

For example, in Laois, Barrowhouse in football and Kyle in hurling would surely be in the conversation. As far as I understand it, both are tied into parish areas that stretch outside Laois, so they aren’t even drawing from a full traditional Laois parish in the way some clubs are. They’re proper small-catchment clubs, but still have their own identity and history.

In Mayo, Ardagh must be one of the smallest parishes in the county in terms of area. It’s a tiny rural parish but still has its own club, which is exactly the sort of example I’m thinking of.

So, county by county, who are the smallest?

Could be based on:

smallest parish area

smallest population/catchment

clubs that don’t have a full parish to themselves

tiny rural clubs still fielding adult teams

clubs that punch way above their numbers

Not necessarily asking for the weakest club — more the smallest pick. The “how are they still producing teams?” type of clubs.

Hi,

I’m looking for XL hurling helmet but, most of all is around 90€. my budget is 50€ so, is there any cheaper ones?

What’s the story with hurling at the moment?
The last few years felt like the game was entering a golden era. Limerick’s dominance was beginning to fade, Cork were coming again, Clare and Tipp along with others back into the mix, and there seemed to be a real buzz around the championship.
But something about this year just hasn’t felt right.
The Munster Championship, which usually gives us a few incredible weeks, never really caught fire. The quarter-finals were poor enough and were mismatches. Even now, with the All-Ireland semi-finals this weekend (commiserations Cork), has there really been much hype? Outside of the likes of Indo GAA, The Hurling Pod and a few other outlets, the build-up has felt strangely quiet.

It almost felt like everyone had already decided it would be Limerick and Cork in the final, and that the semi-finals were just a hurdle to get over. In that sense, maybe Galway doing the business today is actually a great thing for the game. It reminds us that championships are supposed to surprise us.
Football was in a bad place not so long ago. Blanket defences, endless lateral hand-passing and games that had become difficult to watch. But at least there was an acceptance that something had to change. Whether you love or hate the new rules, they’ve undoubtedly created fresh excitement and conversation around the game.

I’m not convinced hurling has an obvious fix. I don’t think banning short puck-outs or making one or two rule tweaks suddenly solves everything. To me, the bigger issue is that the game is it feels like as neutrals we’re missing the great championship stories.
Look at football this year. Louth beat Armagh at the death, suddenly found themselves on the favourable side of the draw, beat Monaghan, and ended up in an All-Ireland semi-final with a genuine chance of reaching the final. Whether you’re from Louth or not, that’s a story people can get behind.

Apart from maybe Offaly’s resurgence this year, where are those stories in hurling? Galway have built a bit of momentum again, but for much of the season the narrative felt like it began and ended with Limerick and Cork. Once Cork were knocked out, it almost felt like part of the championship’s identity disappeared with them.
I also think hurling has a storytelling problem.
Some of the best content I’ve listened to this year wasn’t actually about tactics. It was Pat Ryan on Indo GAA talking about the build-up inside the camp before a Munster final, or maybe some ex players opening up on some podcasts, you know real story telling with emotion about that brings these players and their teams journeys to life. That’s the sort of thing that makes you care.
Hurling has incredible athletes and personalities, but we rarely get to know them. You could have a handful of favourite players in the same room and not pick them out as we barely know what they look like without a helmet. The game needs more stories, more personalities, more rivalries and more reasons for neutrals to become invested beyond simply watching a good match. All of which I believe are exist but they are being underexposed.

I bought a ticket tonight for Limerick v Clare tomorrow, the night before an All-Ireland semi-final. That should probably be impossible. A fixture like that should be sold out, or close to it, well in advance. The fact it isn’t says more than any debate about formats or puck-outs ever could.
Maybe I’m overthinking it, and maybe I’m wrong, but I genuinely feel like hurling is at a crossroads. With ash dieback threatening the very material the game is built on, it almost feels like a pathetic fallacy for where the sport itself is.
What do ye think? Is hurling actually in a great place and I’m just being overly pessimistic, or does something need to change? And if it does, what is that something? What do you think will actually change?

Section 322. €45, but willing to negotiate.