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 ...

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 All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals have been listed as Saturday fixtures once again with the Tailteann Cup football semi-finals retaining their Sunday afternoon slots in June, according to the RTE ...

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 ...

Hurling rarely embraces the idea of carrying ... eventually play resumed with a long ball down on top of the set Cork defence where Cormac O’Brien is fouled. Would Tipperary not have preferred ...