Hurling is regarded as one of the fastest ball-games in the world - and to the uninitiated a first encounter may also beckon forth the attributes "chaotic" and "brutal". Sometimes hurling is confused with hockey. This confusion only lasts until one realizes that charging players occasionally wield their hurleys like lethal weapons of messy destruction. Quite within the rules in most cases. Find out more about hurling and camogie (that is hurling in skirts) and the basic rules in my short introduction to this Irish sport.
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I love the speed of Hurling – but it’s just too “brutal”. I had to give it up and settled by returning to play Lacrosse. (but I still love to watch Hurling being played, and the more brutal, the better- – ouch).