hurling

Hurling (Irish: iománaíocht/iomáint) is an out of doors team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). the sport has prehistoric origins, has been vie for over three,000 years. one in every of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares variety of options with Gaelic soccer, like the sphere and goals, the quantity of players, and far word. there's the same game for ladies known as camogie (camógaíocht). It shares a standard Gaelic root with the game of shinty (camanachd), that is vie preponderantly in Scotland.

The objective of the sport is for players to use a picket stick known as a hurley (in Irish a camán, pronounced /ˈkæmən/ or /kəˈmɔːn/) to hit atiny low ball known as a sliotar /ˈʃlɪtər/ between the opponents' goalposts either over the crossbar for one purpose, or underneath the crossbar into a internet guarded by a goalkeeper for one goal, that is reminiscent of 3 points. The sliotar will be caught within the hand and carried for no more than four steps, smitten within the air, or smitten on the bottom with the hurley. It will be kicked or mistreated with AN open hand (the hand pass) for short-range passing. A player UN agency needs to hold the ball for quite four steps needs to bounce or balance the sliotar on the tip of the stick and therefore the ball will solely be handled double whereas in his possession.

Provided that a player has a minimum of one foot on the bottom, a player might create a shoulder to shoulder charge on AN opponent: (a) UN agency is in possession of the ball, or (b) UN agency is enjoying the ball, or (c) once each players ar occupancy the direction of the ball to play it.

 In 2007, Forbes magazine represented the media attention and population multiplication of Thurles city prior to one in every of the game's annual provincial hurling finals as being "the rough equivalent of thirty million Americans looking at a regional field game game".Hurling is older than the recorded history of eire. it's thought to predate Christianity, having come back to eire with the Celts. it's been a definite Irish recreation for a minimum of 2000 years.[citation needed] The earliest written references to the game in Brehon law start the fifth century. within the book by Seamus King "A History of Hurling" there's a reference from Irish verbal history of hurling as way back because the 1200 B.C being vie in town, County Meath. Hurling is said to the games of shinty that's vie primarily in Scotland, cammag on the island of Man and bandy that was vie once in European country and Wales.Similar tales ar told concerning Fionn mack Cumhail and therefore the Fianna, his legendary someone band. Recorded references to hurling seem in several places like the fourteenth century Statutes of Kilkenny and a fifteenth-century grave block survives in Inishowen, County Donegal.

Hurling was same to be vie in precedent days by groups representing close villages. Villages would play games involving many players, which might last many hours or maybe days.
U.S. president Barack Obama acceptive a hurley from Taoiseach Enda Kenny

 It aimed "to draw up a code of rules for all clubs within the union and to foster that manly and noble game of hurling during this, its native country".
Graph of hurling and gaelic soccer quantitative relation of points to goals from 1910 to 2015

 In 1891 the primary All-Ireland hurling final was vie with Kerry winning the championship. However, the 20th century saw Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary dominate hurling with every of those counties winning quite twenty All-Ireland titles every. Wexford, Waterford, Clare, Limerick, Offaly, Antrim, Dublin, and city were conjointly sturdy hurling counties throughout the 20th century.