A man who found a Northern Ireland boy's sliotar (hurling ball) on the Scottish coastline - eight months after it went missing off the Donegal coast - has said he is amazed it travelled so far.

Carew in his Survey notes that goals were used in the east but in the Cornish speaking areas of the west the aim was to throw the ball 'to the country'. Hurling balls are the size of cricket balls ...

Ó hAilpín was involved with UCC in 2017 and they were beaten by UL in the Freshers final. Anthony Daly was in charge of UL ...

As the festivities of the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Capitol Square came to a close in 2007, brothers Jason and John Kenney gathered on the lawn with their hurls in hand, skillfully hitting a sliotar ...

The word “puck”—as in “hockey puck”—comes from the Irish “poc,” which means “to poke” and is what hurling players do to the sliotar (slit-hur), the hard, leather-covered ball.

The main difference between Gaelic football and hurling is that Gaelic football is played with a ball similar to that used in soccer while hurling is played with a stick (a hurley) and a round ball ...

On the final round of fixtures in the National Hurling League, it proved to be an exciting day, capped off by this evening’s Division 1A games.

Hurling may be in Seán Hogan’s blood ... Helsinki-based artist says. “I’d hit the ball back and forth and ideas would take shape.” He didn’t realise it at the time, but he now knows ...