Gaelic games

[emma25]

Originally posted by gael

well i can only speek for hurling but because it is not a professional game (although it would appear to be in every since but name) player feel they can not be told what to do and many find them uncomfortable!!

Hmm...that's a corny way of thinking, isn't it?

i know what ur thinkin a cracked skull will be far more uncomfortable! the offical wedsite for the GAA is

http//www.gaa.ie [/b]

Well, that was my thought, yes! But I (if you put it in some prospectiv...)have no idea on how it feel to get a hard kick in the groin and I have not had my skull broken eather! So realy I can say! It just sounds more safe somehow....*smile*

[gael]

[quote][i]Originally posted by emma25 [/i
Hmm...that's a corny way of thinking, isn't it?

yes but over the century it has been played there has been no fatal injury as of yet in the game!( note it is also the fastest field game in the world)

[emma25]

it is? *surprised*

[gael]

Originally posted by emma25
it is? *surprised*

yes that is a fact many people dont realise ( well not many outside ireland know about the game) but it is a very fast and physical game!

a lot of info can be found on the site i gave and if anthing is unclear i will do my best to assist if you wish!
once again gaa.ie!!

[emma25]

I didn't know about it until I asked about it, so...!

I have looked at the page, but I...well...I want to see some pic's, please! Not the team pic's but once taken during a game?! Can you help?

[gael]

ok so if you go into the gaa website and go to the four crests below the main index and click on any of those they will bring you to the provincial link from there you can access the individual counties ie down galway cork etc. each county website has a photo gallery ,while many of them are just team photos and other photos of people nobody knows, you will also find a lot of photos from the fields of action! if you are looking for only hurling photos the main hurling counties would be kilkeny, tipperary, waterford, clare, cork, galway.

sorry couldnt be more useful!!

[Raingeanach]

Originally posted by gael
ok this isnt some trend to annoy all ye people who obviously dislikie the irish and our traditions i am just curious to find out peoples opionions about gaelic games! and yer level of understanding of the games , if any, and the level of coverage they recieve in britain and globally , once again if any!!!!
thanks

Little-known fact; Mr. H.M. Stanley, the chap who met Dr. Livingstone, was a patron of the Oban shinty club when it was constituted in 1892.

Shinty is one of many Scottish Gaelic games. (Search in Google for "patronage"+"lorna jackson")

Lorna Jackson`s chapter in Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures (ed. by Grant Jarvie) is most enlightening.