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Two players from Waterford and two players from Limerick in last year's All Ireland hurling final

Do we know what our favourite hurling stars actually look like?

Many of us would struggle to identify hurlers on the pitch because their faces are hidden under helmets during games

Hurling • 18 Feb

Epic and often violent hurling tussles of the pre-famine era have been lost to popular memory

Violence, protest and melees: hurling in pre-famine Ireland

A sport once promoted by the gentry, 19th century hurling matches were action-packed on and off the pitch

History • 23 Oct 20

Is it time to bring Gaelic games back to the Olympics?

Rope climbing, underwater swimming, painting and sculpture have also disappeared from the Games

Olympic Games • 16 Jul 20

"As part of the process to improve the sliotar, a colour change was also suggested"

The story behind hurling's new yellow sliotar

The new digitised yellow sliotar has come through a rigorous set of tests over the last few years

Hurling • 12 Oct 20

Sunday Game hurling pundit Donal Óg Cusack back when he was Cork goalkeeper alongside Diarmuid O'Sullivan and manager Donal O'Grady during the 2004 All Ireland final against Kilkenny

A historian's take on Donal Óg Cusack's "British culture" claim

Gaelic games arguably keep alive the last remnants of a British sporting tradition, namely amateurism, while also being open to innovation

History • 31 Jul 19

"There is this notion that hurling is a country game, that it's of the soil. And yes, of course it is, but to imagine that the history of hurling has no urban side to it, is to create a history that is unsustainable and inaccurate."

The roots of hurling, the greatest game on earth

The Brainstorm long read: the story of the origins of hurling is where history bleeds away into myth and legend

Hurling • 13 Aug 19

The Leix team who won the 1915 All-Ireland hurling final

Up for the match: how Leix won the 1915 All-Ireland hurling final

Ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland final clash between Galway and Waterford, a look at how Laois prepared for victory in 1915, including guards patrolling the team's ...

Hurling • 25 Sep 17

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