Gaelic Sports
Hurling
Similar to lacrosse or hockey, with some elements of basketball, hurling is a highly skilled stick-and-ball game played by 15-man teams on a grass pitch with H-shaped goals at each end. Scoring is achieved by driving the ball (or sliothar) with a curved wooden stick (or "hurley") through the goals, or by knocking the ball over the bar three times for the equivalent of a goal. Hurling is often considered to be the world's fastest game played on a field. It's more than 2,000 years old, the Irish mythology is full of ancient heroes who were also champion hurlers.
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