Yellow sliotar to be used for all inter-county games going forward". Irish Examiner. 7 January 2021. I was then giving talks to hurling coaches and managers and almost every single one of them that was coaching or managing a hurling team was cross-dominant. Her studies have shown that the development of many players is limited by visual defects that have either not been diagnosed or treated or both. Hurling is administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is played throughout the world [ citation needed] and is a fixture of life in many parts of Ireland. Hurling has some popularity among members of the Irish diaspora in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Dubai and Argentina. [1] It has featured regularly in art forms such as film, music and literature. The final of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was listed in second place by CNN in its "10 sporting events you have to see live", after the Olympic Games and ahead of both the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship. [2] After covering the 1959 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Kilkenny and Waterford for BBC Television, English football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme was moved to describe hurling as his second favourite sport in the world. [3] Alex Ferguson used footage of an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final in an attempt to motivate his players during his time as manager of Premier League football club Manchester United. The players winced at the standard of physicality and intensity in which the hurlers engaged. [4] In 2007, Forbes magazine described the media attention and population multiplication of Thurles town ahead of one of the game's annual provincial hurling finals as being "the rough equivalent of 30 million Americans watching a regional lacrosse game". [1] Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper wrote after Stephen Bennett's performance in the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final that hurling was "the best sport ever and if the Irish had colonised the world, nobody would ever have heard of football". [5] The officially approved yellow sliotars are identical in composition, size, and weight as the officially approved white sliotars produced by the same suppliers which have been used in the All-Ireland Championship in recent years.

This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Whether those specifications need to change is something that is very difficult to ascertain, given the number of variables involved, and Daly expects significant further research and debate would be needed before any decision to make the ball travel a shorter distance, for example, could be made. Hutchinson, Roger (2004). Camanachd! The Story of Shinty. Birlinn Ltd. pp.27–28. ISBN 978-1-84158-326-6. Soft Touch Soft Sliotars - These balls are more delicate and have a light weight. These are size 4 balls used by children up to 12 years of age and are used to develop better catching skills. People would claim the same thing has happened in golf, and the ball has been a contributory factor, but you just can't pin everything on the ball.

Hurling leagues are categorised by age in youth level, and by skill in adult level. Players can compete at club level and inter-county level. Say, for example, if Cork were playing Kerry. Cork are red and white and Kerry are green and gold. If Cork were wearing a jersey that was predominantly red and Kerry were wearing a jersey that was predominantly green, that's going to be a big challenge for the players and viewers watching that match. New regulations aim to put end to 'codology' over sliotars". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 1 August 2006 . Retrieved 2 September 2019.A lot time people won't really pay too much attention if one eye isn't as good as the other eye because they feel the other eye is doing what it needs to and that's good enough. But it's not good enough when you're dealing with sport at inter-county level. 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?

Earlier this week, we considered some of the reasons for the trend towards high-scoring games in hurling. Which suggests that if you're colour-blind it makes it much harder to reach the level required to be an inter-county footballer. Hurling ( Irish: iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much terminology. The same game played by women is called camogie ( camógaíocht), which shares a common Gaelic root.

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A hurling match is played with any combination of hurling skills, such as solo runs, hurl passes, hand passes, ground strikes, and many other allowed moves to drive the ball up the field. Naude, A; Donnelly, M (1 March 2012). "Laryngological perils of hurling". Irish Journal of Medical Science. 181: 24 – via ResearchGate. Horgan, admittedly from a forward’s perspective, also questioned why anyone would want fewer scores in a game.