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Our Clueless American Family Goes to Irish Hurling Game
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- Hurling has been played in Ireland for OVER A THREE THOUSAND YEARS!!!
So of course we had to see it for ourselves. I'm sorry my very sporadic observations do not do this incredible sport justice. But it was absolutely grand watching, and now Ben wants to hurl..be a hurler(?).
12:22 Absolutely the best pronunciation of sliotar I've heard from any non-irish commentator !!!
I'm from Limerick and what you said at the end is true. Hurling is something pure, I gave my life to the game and was never paid and got some terrible injuries but I'd do it all again without a second thought. Not for glory, honor, or money, just for the love of it.
why am I almost crying?! ha! I love this comment so much. I think that is why I immediately loved the sport. You can sense its depth right away
Im just after coming back from my first hurling training session lol I've played Gaelic football for like 8 years now but our club doesn't do hurling so recently our minor team were talking about starting hurling and we had 17 of us turn up all from the minor team
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 here is a little programme from the time when helmets were optional ... i hope you like it .... tis as close to quidditch as we could get this side of heaven like ......czcams.com/video/RMpJp6HJT38/video.html
@@Aidansands2 Wow, that's so cool.
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 From Offaly, not long started the video but love the editing choices already, and man.. The wee ones head? Talk about instincts, eh? This old game is buried deep within us all. (whether we sometimes like it or not!) the turns have tabled. Brilliant. 😂
An Irish guy here, it's so cool to see people from other countries observing our culture and history. Hurling has been in steeped in tradition and culture for generations and centuries. Hope you enjoyed your day and if you're back in Ireland in the near future, do go to more games!
Important to remember that it’s especially true in terms of Gaelic Games because it is specifically an amateur sport so they are 100% there of their own volition, they’re not faking it in any manner and they’ve all given their time specifically to be there
Wow, that is so impressive
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 it’s always a point of contention of whether or not that the athletes be paid, but the structure is different to franchised teams in America or large football teams in Britain.
People play for their local club which represents their local area. This is a microcosm of playing for your county, it’s the place you grew up where you learned your sport and you represent it.
It’s almost a mini version of representing your country and that’s how they feel about it.
Croke Park in Dublin is in the top 5 for the largest stadia in Europe (82,300/73,500 seating only) and it’s for an entirely amateur game.
Good job gurl! We Irish just love other countries finding out about this sport. It's 3000 years old and was used to get warriors amped up the night before a battle. N if uv watched the sport it makes sense! 🤣
I seriously love it more than most sports. It seemed so apart of the actual fibers of the country
Very nice video, glad you went and saw a game. Limerick are the current all-Ireland champions, and a very fine team. Not sure when this was shot, but looks like it was early in the season when they were still training, so this might have been the league or even one of the small competition played before that. If it was an all-Ireland championship game the stadium would be full. Still, a great way to see the sport and an experience to be sure. It looks like you were in the Gaelic Grounds, a fine traditional stadium, but badly in need of a face lift! Your point at the end of the video was dead on too, this is the authentic Irish culture, rather than a more performative event aimed at ticking tourist boxes. Hope you enjoyed your visit!
We loved our visit! And I’m so glad to have more context. We kind of threw ourselves in without any background, so this is really helpful! What an amazing sport.
They won 3 in a row
@Nicholas Jordan yea true
Well said, my da was a fan and mainly for those reasons!!!
LOVED all of your insights!!!!
Welcome to the home of the now three in a row, 4 in 5 years All Ireland Champions Limerick. I was at that match with my sister-in-law, it was Limerick's final group match in the league as they couldn't qualify for the knockout stages of that competition so they used it as a warm up for the Championship which started a few weeks after this game.
A pleasure to hear you enjoyed the day at the TUS Gaelic Grounds on the Ennis Road in Limerick City, you're very welcome to come back again soon.
Ps the team Limerick played are called Offaly, the team names on the scoreboards are in Irish.
Wow, thank you for giving me more context. I had no clue I was picking such a beloved team when I bought our tickets. In fact it looks hours of research to even figure out HOW to buy tickets, but I'm so glad I persevered, because hurling is now one of my favorite sports. And thank you for informing me of Offaly, I didn't want to say it wrong!
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 Without a doubt the team is beloved. They are the best team in the country. The amount of trophies the team has won has gone beyond everyone's expectations.. but to win 4 All Ireland Championships (in 5 seasons), 4 Munster Championships (in a row) and 2 National Hurling League Titles plus a couple of pre season competitions, it's a team who are really special that achieve greatness.
Offaly have been on a downward spiral over the last few seasons, after that game vs Limerick, they lost a relegation playoff against Westmeath so Offaly will play in Division 2A of the league in 2023
I'm from limerick and play camogie ( hurling for girls) and it is currently my life and everything I do is play camogie. I'm so glad you went to see these lads do what they do best and I think it's even better as they don't get paid and can't transfer to different teams, you play for the county you were born and raise in.
hope youre doing well and keeping up the passion, love from belfast
Nice to see people from other countries enjoying our game, next time you guys visit you should go to a championship match you’ll notice a huge difference in the overall atmosphere.
The keep net isn’t for protection it’s just to catch the sliotar so they’re not running around looking for it. Often it goes over it too
That makes sense! Is it like baseball in America, where the fans get to keep the ball if it goes in the crowd?
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 yes but you have to make sure someone’s dad doesn’t wrestle it off of you
Langer
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 technically no but many of them do keep it
@@hughwalsh8914 hahaha! That would entertain me more than the game!
Fair play to you and your family for going to the match and trying to understand it, your son seems very interested in the game, hope ye enjoyed yere stay
He is very interested! He plays ice hockey here so this kind of thing is right up his alley
Hope you enjoyed the visit :). One rough sport though. You guys were posted on the news website, which is how I came across this too !
So cool that you got to see hurling and my own Limerick who recently won the All Ireland, again! Incidentally, the player that posed with your kids is Diarmaid Byrnes who is hotly tipped to be named hurler of the year! Good choice!
I feel very validated! What are the odds that we would go to the game of the team who actually won the championship
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 They've won 4 out of the last 5 All-Ireland now :)
Very fun video. Its always fun to hear peoples opinion on our culture 😄
I adore your culture
The best is you found spring onions and didnt know then pulled up tulips looking for onions 😅🤣🤣 kids are having fun anyway
Love the video and love the game with a passion,played from under 8s up until I got a bad injury in a game that finished the playing career but I never miss a championship game for my county(Wexford) I would really recommend coming to a Wexford championship game in Wexford Park, You will feel the passion and atmosphere ❤ ❤
So cool to learn about a culture from your eyes!
Thank you Melina!
hi mandi, i really enjoyed your observations of hurling🤣🤣. all so true and v funny to hear them from a tourists perspective. we are from limerick and were at that match and my 2 lads took part in the pitch invasion at the end, they love to meet their hurling heros. that was a league match and limerick went on to win the all ireland senior hurling championship this summer🇳🇬🇳🇬
Nice video and great job. 👍
Well done on pronouncing Sliotar. Only fact you missed is that rural GAA Pitches are often the preferred landing place of the Irish Air Corps when performing the role of Air Ambulance - When a match isn't played of course.
Holy cow! I certainly did NOT know that cool fact
I just realised that you past me walking in to the stand🤣🤣🤣
Hey I'm from cork and hurling is one of my favourite things also they where something called shinguards on their shins to protect them as well as a helmet
as an irish man, scrolling through the comments i have to say, were bleedin sound.
By the way the person you took a photo with is called Diarmuid Byrnes, the best free taker in the country!
Hi I'm Irish from cork and I got you to your 400th sub
Well done, a great report, the hurler ye got the photo with is Diarmuid Byrnes, the no. 5 for Limerick. Limerick won the hurling championship (All Ireland) again this year, 3 years in a row, and Diarmuid played brilliantly all year and is favourite to be named Hurler of the Year for 2022. What ye went to was a league match but championship matches have an electric atmosphere with 82,000 at the final.
Wow, that is so helpful, thank you! I'm so excited that the team I randomly picked was so beloved. And I really need to see a championship game next year.
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 czcams.com/users/PlayHurling
Nice quiet game. Should go to croke park next year and show the difference 😁
I was standing on the gate directly in front of you for the start of the second half 😂
Noooooo wayyyyyy! That’s incredible! You’re a player?
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 Ya 😂
That’s amazing! What are the odds
I am from Limerick and i spend nearly 4 hours a day playing hurling i think it is the best sport my dad always says if you don't get stuck in you'll get hurt. My mother has Kyle Hayes on messages 😁😁😁
Fair play for going to a hurling match and trying to understand it. GAA is fuelled on pure passion. Maybe a fact you didn’t know but the helmets were not mandatory until 2010. Nice video I enjoyed your reaction to it. Try a Gaelic football match next if your in Ireland again but I would say hurling is much better to watch and much harder to play
You nailed sliotar fair play
Helmets only became compulsory about 15 years ago. Before that it was optional a d most played without helmets or at least without face shields on the helmets.
Yikes! It just gets more hardcore the more I learn
Hurling has been played in Ireland for OVER A THREE THOUSAND YEARS!!!
So of course we had to see it for ourselves. I'm sorry my very sporadic observations do not do this incredible sport justice. But it was absolutely grand watching, and now Ben wants to hurl..be a hurler(?).
Favorite Part: Blair's dramatic reenactments using her hands as hurling players
They were young lads probably ,because those two teams don't play in the same division at adult level anymore,but they do at minor level which means they are teeenagers
Okay, that makes more sense
They’re adults. It’s the 2 senior teams and it was a division 1 league game.
@@mikelimerick1982 Yes but i didn't think offaly were in division this year
They were promoted last year from division 2
The game is at least 1500 years old although nobody knows what the rules were way back then.
You were watching Offaly vs Limerick in a league match early in the season.
Thank you! I couldn't figure out the exact names and terminology
There is actually a very funny story about a medic not in hurling ,but in gaelic football which is the other irish native game.A manager at half time in the championship game(superbowl equivalent) shouted at a "player" and claimed he was rubbish ,in the heat of anger over the poor performance of the team, and the players excuse for not playing well, he wasn't playing he was the medic.
Hahahaha! That makes me love it even more. There was so much passion that he couldn’t be contained. Also, we realllly wanted to see Gaelic football but didn’t have time. Which one is your favorite?
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 Hurling is better to watch ,but gaelic football is more popular where i live and naturally i support the local team which play gaelic football
@@gallowglass2630 that makes sense! The most popular sport in our city is probably baseball. But we love hockey
Limerick have a nice song, too, "Limerick, you're a Lady".
no way! I want to look it up now
I got injured but i was never going to stop playing hurling
I was the one who said COME ON LADS
I think that you might have enjoyed a camogie (women) match more, or even a P6 match (primary school). Hurling/Irish Football is not just a sport, it is a way of life. A local team has a clubhouse that the entire town uses for other cultural activities. While hurling in the USA is more popular on the East coast, there is just about one hurling team in every state. See USGAA and NCGAA. Orlando hosted the National Collegiate Gaelic Athletic Association NCGAA) this past year, Perdue University once again dominated but Notre Dame was much improved. This weekend there will be the Peach Cup in Atlanta Georgia. Teams from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina will square off. Enjoy the game!
The idea of going to a women's game or a PRIMARY SCHOOL GAME, and see the kids play! That would have been soooo amazing. Next time we go to Ireland, for sure! And I looked it up and it looks like there is a small league here in Phoenix but I did notice it is far bigger on the east coast. Are they good enough to play against Irish teams?
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 There is a national juvenile competition each year at U15, for hurling it is called Féile (festival in Irish) and for gaelic football it is called Peil na nÓg (football of the young in Irish). There are separate competitions for boys and girls teams and teams come from New York, London and elsewhere to take part, maybe not in the highest divisions but not in lowest either. It is a special weekend for any juvenile team that qualifies to take part.
25 June 2022; The New York team celebrate their win in the Division 4 Plate Final during the John West Féile na nGael National Camogie and Hurling Finals at Boardsmill GAA Club in Meath. Photo by Daire Brennan/Sportsfile
The match/game starts with the ball being thrown in between 4 people
Dang it, we missed that part
Lol us irish absolutely love our hurling😂 "I can guarantee u it is not easy" honestly it's something we grew up it it is rlly easy
I guess that’s how people feel about sports here??? But hurling genuinely looks like it takes a lot of grit.
It may be bred in us, but in reality for 99% of the population is it "really easy".. If you are one of them, good on ya. If not, let's give them a little more credit😊🇮🇪
there's a sport called Camogie which is the female version of hurling with some differences
Fun stuff- Gaelic sports actually work a lot like American ones in that the teams play a regular season in a league, but then have a knockout championship format afterwards, with that final game (the all-ireland final) being the most important
Okay, this is the best description I've heard so far. So was Limerick in a lower league or a higher one?
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 I'm not entirely sure about limerick's league standing, but given they just won the all Ireland for the third time in a row, I'd say they're definitely up at the top of the country
Not really they are different competitions
What you said in the end is so true. Anyone playing In the GAA, be it hurling or gaelic football are all doing it voluntarily and have day jobs outside of the game. It's all for the love of the game.
that is the most amazing fact of all
Ha ha.... Liam Langton playing in that game is my nephew 😁❤️
No way! What team and what number?
Bill Murray was there a few weeks back
Yes hurling is the fastest game on grass and has been played for over 2000 years
hahah try 3,000 :)
Good video. Unfortunately you didn’t see a championship game which is even faster and rougher as the players and teams would not be at full strength at what you saw there. That looks like a league encounter
that just means we will have to go back! What game would you recommend?
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 The All Ireland Hurling Final is the biggest game of the year, 82,300 fans in Croke Park stadium! Tickets are extremely hard to get due to everyone in both counties wanting to attend. Apart from that I would recommend a Munster Championship game, that’s where you’ll see some of the best teams in Ireland at their peak performance.
Helmets only became mandatory about 10 years ago
Oh wow! So it’s even more hard core than I thought
So I am about to write a scene in a novel with a hurling game. Any details you think someone should certainly mention? (I have never had the pleasure of traveling to Ireland or seeing a real hurling game, so I can use all the help I can get.)
When I first came up with the idea for this scene, I thought hurling was a mythical game because the only place I had ever heard of it was that King Finvarra of the Daoine Sidhe had hurling players in his fairy court. I was really shocked and delighted when I found out it was a real game, and Irishmen still played it.
I don't know how popular it is in places other than Ireland, but the town of Minions, Cornwall has a group of standing stones up on the moors that are said to have once been hurling players who played on Sunday and were turned to stone.
Wow! this sounds like a really cool book. And I had no clue about those standing stones in Cornwall, that is so cool. As I said, I am very much still clueless. But even reading the comments here will give you a better idea. I have found that learning about hurling online is a lot harder than actually talking to someone who has played. And clearly, I could be AT a game and still not get it right. Are you also from the US? There are hurling clubs in most major US cities, here in Phoenix they have one. It might be a good idea to go to a local game or meet up, and ask those players more.
Thanks!
I live in Virginia. I will look to see if we have any local hurling clubs. What a good idea!
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 Someone from the local hurling club did get back to me. Thanks!
Kerry Vs Limerick
What was the score
Whats not to love, you get a stick to hit stuff with, the ball, other players. You have to get to croke for a game, im more of a football(gaelic) fan, hurling is too quick for my old eyes these days, hope you all enjoyed the game.
we loved it! And now I really want to see a gaelic football game!
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 brilliant, thanks for reply
On GAA WHAT IS HURLING on u tube it says a AX shaped stick. Well done young felle
New York have their own team that competes, their Hurling team hasn't competed in awhile because of Covid but they'll be back soon hopefully
what?! I had no clue! That's amazing. I wonder if they have any teams here in Phoenix
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 there's the phoenix Gaels that compete in the South Western competitions I think they changed their name to the Brian Boru's GAA club
@@dylanduffy1995 Now I want to look them up and go to a game!
No New York only play in the football championship and they played this year along with London
@@marcphelan9883 they used to play in the Ulster hurling championship until it got scrapped because new York found it inconvenient to travel constantly for the Lory Meagher or Nicky Rackard
Ye got a picture with the best free taker on the team Diarmid Brynes sorry for the late comment 😅
Yayyy! Now we know who he is
Richard Harris home town
Hi, you're report on the hurling match featured on an Irish online news channel called ". Cork Beo ". You should check out.
Beo means live in Irish.
I just did! Wow, thank you so much Sean, I wouldn't have known otherwise!
Not sure if you know this, Hurling (you call it "Curling" at 16:30 - Curling is a very different game from Scotland) is an amateur sport - the players don't get paid (apart from money for gas / petrol to travel to and from training and matches) - they have everyday 9-to-5 jobs attend to. Also, you play for the county / club of your birthplsce with few exceptions. Women also play essentially the same but it is called Camogie - pronounced Kam-oh-gee".
I know I died inside when i saw that typo of “curling”. My internet is so slow I didn’t have the heart to reupload, but I’m glad you pointed it out. Also wow! I didn’t know any of that about hurling. That is amazing. So people really are doing it for the absolute love of the sport?!
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 - Indeed it is for love the sport, pue and simple!
Well now I love hurling even more now
Its limerick vs offaly
Limerick
The reason they have helmets bc if that ball hit their head who knows what could happen, those balls they use are like rocks
Broo since im irish watching this just feels wrong like
BRO its a hurley
Surprised they didn't take card
Who's gonna do a clueless Irish family watching baseball! Or playing cricket!!!
Yes!!!! Best idea ever! You come here Arizona and we will go with you. Come on Irish families, you know you want to be clueless with us
Limerick vs offaly
nice commentry.. Appreciated.. but never play bagpipes at an Irish game. Bagpipes are from Scotland! Uilleann Pipes are from Ireland.. ..but nice presentation Mandi..
It is the fastest game on grass
That’s amazing! That’s what I suspected
Explain"the fastest game on grass"im bewildered with such a post.
@@stephenburke5967 the sport where the ball moves fastest and furthest from a to b
Multiple people have told me this, and I thought the same thing. ⬆️ the ball and the players move the most in relation to the amount of time the game is played. Probably a hard thing to quantify
No it's not the fastest ball game on grass.
6:33 was that a 3 pointer???
😭😭😭
I am very bad at "the sports" and all the awkward terminology that comes with it, ha!
They play up to 35 years old
My dad played till 43
I play hurling
Yay! do you love it?
Yeh I'm nearly the best at my club
Ireland 🇮🇪
Now you need to go watch a shinty game in Scotland
I don’t even know what that means but we are heading to Scotland in the next couple of years, and you can bet I’m going to go to one
I wouldn't bother it's not as exciting as hurling hence it's not a popular spectator sport in Scotland
What u were saying offended me
Maybe go to croke park
The green white and yellow are offaly
A game that predates America by a few thousand years 😁
So cool. I lived in Germany as a teenager and I was always fascinated that the church in our village was older than my entire home country (not counting the natives of course that are the originals)
I think you may be the first person on CZcams to pronounce 'sliotar' properly.
im irih i playedin this pitch for a school final
Next watch gaelic
Yesssss
Tbf they could’ve went croke park
Ok, my single most important observation of this video is that your nose is just like Dad's. Who knew?
But seriously!!! Especially from the side.
Offaly is where I live mup offaly
Offaly abu
Go to Scotland to watch a shinty game
You perfectly captured a goal. When you were worried about the player who was tieing his shoes, you perfectly captured a goal in the background.
11.30
I am cracking up! No way, I am going to look at that. That is such a "me" thing to be focused on shoe laces when the real action was happening in the background before my very eyes.
@@nonsenseofmandi9650 thanks for your response. 11mins and 30 exactly. The ball is small but everyone cheers! Best wishes.
This sport is about 3000 years old 😅😅😅😅
Up the irish
limrick v oflay
They are called crisps not chips
oh indeed, a grievous mistake on my part
They don't get payed
that boggles my mind. and makes me love it more!
Not many supporters.
To be fair, we were on the dead end of the bleachers
No because its a game between irelands best team and a team only in the top 16 ,in the secondary competition the league. There was a combined attendance during the summer in that stadium in the main championship for 2 games of 54000 and when limerick won the all ireland they played before 82300 in croke park
@@gallowglass2630 Oh wow, that would have been a magical game to be at
I play GAA but not hurling, just gailice
Limerick v Offaly
Y
Get husband your self kids playing it its in usa also irish groups
Why do u keep comparing hurling to Harry potter
Sorry but this is hard to watch as a hurler but I can't blame you
Hurling is actually an ancestor of hockey. The way I choose my hurleys is similar to how I’d choose my baseball bat. Also Croke park where this match was played was the sight of a massacre committed by the British army. They murdered 14 civilians, some of whom were players in the match as a response to Michael Collins’ Cairo Gang assassinating British officers, British officials and informants for the British.
Edit realized this wasn’t Croke park
Okay, but still, I had no idea that that happened at ANY park. Man, the Irish really have such a deep history of crappy things happening. Wow. And my son plays ice hockey so that makes me really excited, that we are participating, in a very round about way, in the sport.
There's nothing actual about that statement. Just more fantastical blarney.