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Hurling (Irish: iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

Mobile version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgEMvRrOCRI Hurling combines the skills of baseball, hockey, and lacrosse in one high speed, high scoring, hig...

Hurling (Irish: Iománaíocht/Iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

Hurling is an ancient game and one of the national sports of Ireland. Widely considered to be the fastest game on grass, the game consists of two teams of 15 trying to drive a ball down the field...

The showcase event of the world’s most provincial sport takes place on Sunday in Dublin. A Galway squad takes on Waterford in the All-Ireland Hurling final, as Croke Park will be packed with a crowd of 80,000. In the U.S. or any nation other than Ireland, this matchup, and any hurling event, might have trouble drawing a crowd of 800.

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Shinty (Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland,[1] and was even played for a considerable time in England[2] and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated.

Camanachd Association

Promotional shinty film courtesy of Norman Strachan.

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Scotland can lay claim to the birth of many popular sports, but as far as history goes it doesn’t get any more fascinating than that of shinty. The origins of shinty date back to the 6th century when the techniques used for play were used to train ancient warriors

Fort William wing centre Gary Innes introduces 10 unusual facts about his beloved shinty

A bandy ball is a rubber ball used for playing bandy.

The Swedish national squad has reclaimed the World Bandy Championship after beating Russia 6-1 in the final in Sweden. Bandy is played on ice not with a puck...

The game is a forerunner of hockey, played in a larger rink and with a small orange ball instead of a puck, and its supporters want it to become a part of the Winter Olympics.

Koosh Ball meets rubber band to make the Bandy Ball- a tactile wonder that has become a sensory classic. Each stringy tentacle has just the right amount of stre

IJscolf was a sport played on ice, popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age.

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IJscolf was a sport played on ice, popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age. It was similar to ice hockey, although there is no evidence that ice hockey was directly influenced by the IJscolf.