GAA Official IRELAND game Sliotar Size 5 hurling ball

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Du Pont, Kevin Paul. "Captivated by Irish hurling; US soldiers brought it home". Boston Globe . Retrieved 19 June 2015.

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Keenan, Robert Anthony; Riogh, Aisling Nic An; Fuentes, Adrian; Daly, Padraig; Cullen, Ivor M. (19 January 2019). "The dangers of hurling—genital injuries arising in the modern game". Irish Journal of Medical Science. 188 (3): 1087–1091. doi: 10.1007/s11845-019-01969-x. ISSN 0021-1265. PMID 30661175. S2CID 58609483. Going more than four steps with the ball in the hand (it may be carried indefinitely on the hurley) Where the GAA Sliotar Specification is not adhered to, problems have arisen around how far Sliotar is travelling, and this has implications for the integrity of the game as a contest and a spectacle.Provided that a player has at least one foot on the ground, he may make a shoulder-to-shoulder charge on an opponent who is in possession of the ball or is playing the ball, or when both players are moving in the direction of the ball. New English-Irish Dictionary - hurling ball". focloir.ie. Foras na Gaeilge . Retrieved 29 July 2020. Further information: List of Gaelic games competitions Kilkenny is the only " Hurling-only" county; the 14 light coloured counties are Football-only; the remaining 17 compete in both (see image description for details).

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Sliotars will only be approved for use based on compliance with standards and tests as set out by Central Council.A ground strike is when a player hits the sliotar on the ground. Are you allowed to throw the ball in hurling? They have two official teams called The Wild Geese and The Barley House Wolves (also known as The New Hampshire Wolves Hurling Club), with the latter having been spontaneously established in 2006 when the troop took in a game while on a stopover at Shannon airport. King, Seamus J. (1998). The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad. Boherclough, Cashel, Co. Tipperary: S. J. King. ISBN 978-0-9533513-0-5. OCLC 40820752. Hurling isn’t just a huge sporting event; it’s also an important economic factor. Each year, 450,000 hurls are carefully handcrafted in Ireland.